diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 6847c4a..7e49439 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -5,4 +5,8 @@
 .idea/
 *.iml
 
+# VS Code
+.factorypath
+.vscode
+
 **/dependency-reduced-pom.xml
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tracing/src/main/java/io/strimzi/test/tracing/HttpHandle.java b/tracing/src/main/java/io/strimzi/test/tracing/HttpHandle.java
index 6f35ec9..2e4d937 100644
--- a/tracing/src/main/java/io/strimzi/test/tracing/HttpHandle.java
+++ b/tracing/src/main/java/io/strimzi/test/tracing/HttpHandle.java
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 
 import java.net.URI;
 import java.net.URISyntaxException;
+import java.net.http.HttpClient;
 import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
 import java.net.http.HttpResponse;
 
@@ -18,7 +19,8 @@ protected HttpRequest.Builder builder(HttpContext context) {
         try {
             HttpRequest.Builder builder = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
                 .uri(new URI(context.getUri()))
-                .setHeader(context.getHeaderKey(), context.getHeaderValue());
+                .setHeader(context.getHeaderKey(), context.getHeaderValue())
+                .version(HttpClient.Version.HTTP_1_1);
 
             if (context.getRecord() == null) {
                 builder.GET();