title: Guzzle returns cURL error 3: <url> malformed
body: <p>I want to try out the guzzle library and am following through their <a href="http://guzzle.readthedocs.org/en/latest/" rel="noreferrer">quickstart</a> tutorial to make http requests to an api.</p>
  
  <p>Yet it doesn't seem to work, because I get the following error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>cURL error 3: &lt;url&gt; malformed
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Since I have never worked with cURL before, I don't even know how to respond to that error message. Here is my code with the request I am making:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    $client = new Client();
      $client-&gt;get('/', ['verify' =&gt; true]);
  
      $response = $client-&gt;get('https://api.github.com/');
  
      dd($response);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am using the Laravel 5 framework and calling the index method in my HomeController. Also am using WAMP.</p>
  
  <p>I would appreciate any help and suggestion, because I would like to try Guzzle out.</p>
  
  <p>Here is a picture of the Error Message I get:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/8kjed.jpg" alt="Laravel 5 Error Message"></p>