cURL error 3:

please I am storing the BASE URL for an endpoint in my .env file and calling this endpoint in my controller. When I do this:

$request = $client->get(env('URI').'/positions');

I get this error - cURL error 3: malformed

But when I do this -

$url = env('URI');
$request = $client->get($url.'/positions');

It works. What might be the problem here?

via Chebli Mohamed