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Hi everyone,
```I'm encountering an issue with Ktor's HttpClient when setting a default base URL. Here's my setup:
val client = HttpClient(engine) {
    defaultRequest {
        // Setting default base URL for requests
        url("<https://example.com>")
    }
}

When I make a request to a relative path, it works as expected:
client.get {
    url("/sampleApi")
}
// This correctly calls "<https://example.com/sampleApi>"

However, the problem arises when I try to make a request to a different domain with a different protocol:
client.get {
    url("<http://anotherdomain.com/sampleApi>")
}
// This results in "<https://anotherdomain.com/sampleApi>", overriding the protocol to https```
The default protocol (https) is being applied to the entire URL, and it changes `http` to `https` for the new domain.
Has anyone faced a similar issue or knows how to ensure the protocol specified in the URL remains unchanged? Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!

This is a bug in the default request code that is targeted for 3.0.0 due to some changes in the URL handling <https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KTOR-5586>

For a workaround, you might need to use a separate client instance when going from https to http