Is there a way to define a base URL in HttpClient ? By "base URL" I mean that all requests are based on it, for example : with

baseUrl

= "https://foo.host.com/api/v1" when calling

httpClient.get("endpoint")

, then the resolved URL is

<https://foo.host.com/api/v1/endpoint>

.

The easiest way might be to add an extension function on the HTTP client which invokes get() but prefixes the path with the base URL that you want

There’s a

DefaultRequest

feature: https://ktor.io/clients/http-client/features/default-request.html

I found that I could archive something close to what I want with the DefaultRequest feature :

val client = HttpClient(OkHttp) {
    defaultRequest {
        url {
            protocol = URLProtocol.HTTPS
            host = "<http://foo.host.com|foo.host.com>"
        }
    }
}

client.get<HttpResponse>(path = "api/v1/endpoint")

With that I can at least specify a common host. Would be nice to have something similar to Retrofit's

baseUrl

though. I'll consider writing a feature for that.