diff --git a/nima/webclient/webclient/pom.xml b/nima/webclient/webclient/pom.xml
index e43a7570add..efce71e3f61 100644
--- a/nima/webclient/webclient/pom.xml
+++ b/nima/webclient/webclient/pom.xml
@@ -89,6 +89,11 @@
             <artifactId>junit-jupiter-api</artifactId>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <artifactId>junit-jupiter-params</artifactId>
+            <groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.hamcrest</groupId>
             <artifactId>hamcrest-all</artifactId>
diff --git a/nima/webclient/webclient/src/main/java/io/helidon/nima/webclient/http1/Http1Client.java b/nima/webclient/webclient/src/main/java/io/helidon/nima/webclient/http1/Http1Client.java
index 8ce2f2bdacb..28e6e2aef6d 100644
--- a/nima/webclient/webclient/src/main/java/io/helidon/nima/webclient/http1/Http1Client.java
+++ b/nima/webclient/webclient/src/main/java/io/helidon/nima/webclient/http1/Http1Client.java
@@ -235,6 +235,18 @@ public Http1ClientBuilder useSystemServiceLoader(boolean useServiceLoader) {
             configBuilder.servicesUseServiceLoader(useServiceLoader);
             return this;
         }
+
+        /**
+         * Can be set to {@code true} to force the use of relative URIs in all requests,
+         * regardless of the presence or absence of proxies or no-proxy lists.
+         *
+         * @param relativeUris relative URIs flag
+         * @return updated builder instance
+         */
+        public Http1ClientBuilder relativeUris(boolean relativeUris) {
+            configBuilder.relativeUris(relativeUris);
+            return this;
+        }
     }
 
 }
diff --git a/nima/webclient/webclient/src/main/java/io/helidon/nima/webclient/http1/Http1ClientConfig.java b/nima/webclient/webclient/src/main/java/io/helidon/nima/webclient/http1/Http1ClientConfig.java
index 26fea9fc098..7413bf5ab86 100644
--- a/nima/webclient/webclient/src/main/java/io/helidon/nima/webclient/http1/Http1ClientConfig.java
+++ b/nima/webclient/webclient/src/main/java/io/helidon/nima/webclient/http1/Http1ClientConfig.java
@@ -65,6 +65,10 @@ interface Http1ClientConfig extends ClientConfig {
     @ConfiguredOption("true")
     boolean servicesUseServiceLoader();
 
+    // TODO Set the default value to false when proxy is implemented and see Http1CallChainBase.prologue for other changes
+    @ConfiguredOption("true")
+    boolean relativeUris();
+
     @Singular
     List<WebClientService> services();
 }
diff --git a/nima/webclient/webclient/src/main/java/io/helidon/nima/webclient/http1/HttpCallChainBase.java b/nima/webclient/webclient/src/main/java/io/helidon/nima/webclient/http1/HttpCallChainBase.java
index f9c688374d5..c400669379c 100644
--- a/nima/webclient/webclient/src/main/java/io/helidon/nima/webclient/http1/HttpCallChainBase.java
+++ b/nima/webclient/webclient/src/main/java/io/helidon/nima/webclient/http1/HttpCallChainBase.java
@@ -79,8 +79,13 @@ abstract WebClientServiceResponse doProceed(ClientConnection connection,
                                                 BufferData writeBuffer);
 
     void prologue(BufferData nonEntityData, WebClientServiceRequest request, UriHelper uri) {
+        // TODO When proxy is implemented, change default value of Http1ClientConfig.relativeUris to false
+        //  and below conditional statement to:
+        //  proxy == Proxy.noProxy() || proxy.noProxyPredicate().apply(finalUri) || clientConfig.relativeUris
+        String schemeHostPort = clientConfig.relativeUris() ? "" : uri.scheme() + "://" + uri.host() + ":" + uri.port();
         nonEntityData.writeAscii(request.method().text()
                                          + " "
+                                         + schemeHostPort
                                          + uri.pathWithQueryAndFragment(request.query(), request.fragment())
                                          + " HTTP/1.1\r\n");
     }
diff --git a/nima/webclient/webclient/src/test/java/io/helidon/nima/webclient/http1/ClientRequestImplTest.java b/nima/webclient/webclient/src/test/java/io/helidon/nima/webclient/http1/ClientRequestImplTest.java
index 7e6afcfa0e8..3233bc8870d 100644
--- a/nima/webclient/webclient/src/test/java/io/helidon/nima/webclient/http1/ClientRequestImplTest.java
+++ b/nima/webclient/webclient/src/test/java/io/helidon/nima/webclient/http1/ClientRequestImplTest.java
@@ -19,9 +19,11 @@
 import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.net.URI;
 import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+import java.util.StringTokenizer;
 import java.util.concurrent.ArrayBlockingQueue;
 import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
 import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
+import java.util.stream.Stream;
 
 import io.helidon.common.GenericType;
 import io.helidon.common.buffers.BufferData;
@@ -39,13 +41,18 @@
 import io.helidon.nima.webclient.WebClient;
 
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.junit.jupiter.params.ParameterizedTest;
+import org.junit.jupiter.params.provider.Arguments;
+import org.junit.jupiter.params.provider.MethodSource;
 
 import static io.helidon.common.testing.http.junit5.HttpHeaderMatcher.hasHeader;
 import static io.helidon.common.testing.http.junit5.HttpHeaderMatcher.noHeader;
 import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.containsString;
 import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.is;
+import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.startsWith;
 import static org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert.assertThat;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertThrows;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.params.provider.Arguments.arguments;
 
 class ClientRequestImplTest {
     private static final Http.HeaderValue REQ_CHUNKED_HEADER = Http.Header.createCached(
@@ -193,6 +200,28 @@ void testSkipUrlEncoding() {
         assertThat(uri.getRawFragment(), is("someFragment,"));
     }
 
+    @ParameterizedTest
+    @MethodSource("relativeUris")
+    void testRelativeUris(boolean relativeUris, boolean outputStream, String requestUri, String expectedUriStart) {
+        Http1Client client = WebClient.builder().relativeUris(relativeUris).build();
+        FakeHttp1ClientConnection connection = new FakeHttp1ClientConnection();
+        Http1ClientRequest request = client.put(requestUri);
+        request.connection(connection);
+        Http1ClientResponse response;
+        if (outputStream) {
+            response = getHttp1ClientResponseFromOutputStream(request, new String[] {"Sending Something"});
+        } else {
+            response = request.submit("Sending Something");
+        }
+
+        assertThat(response.status(), is(Http.Status.OK_200));
+        StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(connection.getPrologue(), " ");
+        // skip method part
+        st.nextToken();
+        // Validate URI part
+        assertThat(st.nextToken(), startsWith(expectedUriStart));
+    }
+
     private static void validateSuccessfulResponse(Http1Client client, ClientConnection connection) {
         String requestEntity = "Sending Something";
         Http1ClientRequest request = client.put("http://localhost:" + dummyPort + "/test");
@@ -248,6 +277,28 @@ private static Http1ClientResponse getHttp1ClientResponseFromOutputStream(Http1C
         return response;
     }
 
+    private static Stream<Arguments> relativeUris() {
+        return Stream.of(
+                // OutputStream (chunk request)
+                arguments(false, true, "http://www.dummy.com/test", "http://www.dummy.com:80/"),
+                arguments(false, true, "http://www.dummy.com:1111/test", "http://www.dummy.com:1111/"),
+                arguments(false, true, "https://www.dummy.com/test", "https://www.dummy.com:443/"),
+                arguments(false, true, "https://www.dummy.com:1111/test", "https://www.dummy.com:1111/"),
+                arguments(true, true, "http://www.dummy.com/test", "/test"),
+                arguments(true, true, "http://www.dummy.com:1111/test", "/test"),
+                arguments(true, true, "https://www.dummy.com/test", "/test"),
+                arguments(true, true, "https://www.dummy.com:1111/test", "/test"),
+                // non-OutputStream (single entity request)
+                arguments(false, false, "http://www.dummy.com/test", "http://www.dummy.com:80/"),
+                arguments(false, false, "http://www.dummy.com:1111/test", "http://www.dummy.com:1111/"),
+                arguments(false, false, "https://www.dummy.com/test", "https://www.dummy.com:443/"),
+                arguments(false, false, "https://www.dummy.com:1111/test", "https://www.dummy.com:1111/"),
+                arguments(true, false, "http://www.dummy.com/test", "/test"),
+                arguments(true, false, "http://www.dummy.com:1111/test", "/test"),
+                arguments(true, false, "https://www.dummy.com/test", "/test"),
+                arguments(true, false, "https://www.dummy.com:1111/test", "/test"));
+    }
+
     private static class FakeHttp1ClientConnection implements ClientConnection {
         private final DataReader clientReader;
         private final DataWriter clientWriter;
@@ -255,6 +306,7 @@ private static class FakeHttp1ClientConnection implements ClientConnection {
         private final DataWriter serverWriter;
         private Throwable serverException;
         private ExecutorService webServerEmulator;
+        private String prologue;
 
         FakeHttp1ClientConnection() {
             ArrayBlockingQueue<byte[]> serverToClient = new ArrayBlockingQueue<>(1024);
@@ -290,6 +342,11 @@ public String channelId() {
             return null;
         }
 
+        // This will be used for testing the element of Prologue
+        String getPrologue() {
+            return prologue;
+        }
+
         private DataWriter writer(ArrayBlockingQueue<byte[]> queue) {
             return new DataWriter() {
                 @Override
@@ -361,8 +418,8 @@ private void webServerHandle() {
             // Read prologue
             int lineLength = serverReader.findNewLine(16384);
             if (lineLength > 0) {
-                //String prologue = serverReader.readAsciiString(lineLength);
-                serverReader.skip(lineLength + 2); // skip Prologue + CRLF
+                prologue = serverReader.readAsciiString(lineLength);
+                serverReader.skip(2); // skip CRLF
             }
 
             // Read Headers