René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Invoke-WebRequest resolves host names (URIs without http:// or https://) inconsistently","articleBody":"# Steps to reproduce\r\n\r\n```powershell\r\nIWR \"unifiedpowerusa.com\"\r\n```\r\n\r\n# Expected behavior\r\n\r\n```\r\nIWR \"http://unifiedpowerusa.com\"\r\n```\r\n\r\n# Actual behavior\r\n\r\n```\r\nIWR : Specified argument was out of the range of valid values.\r\nParameter name: baseUri\r\nAt line:1 char:1\r\n+ iwr \"unifiedpowerusa.com\"\r\n+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\r\n+ CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Invoke-WebRequest], ArgumentOutOfRangeException\r\n+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.InvokeWebRequestCommand\r\n```\r\n\r\n# Environment data\r\n\r\n\u003c!-- provide the output of $PSVersionTable --\u003e\r\n\r\n```\r\nName                           Value\r\n----                           -----\r\nPSVersion                      6.1.2\r\nPSEdition                      Core\r\nGitCommitId                    6.1.2\r\nOS                             Microsoft Windows 10.0.17134\r\nPlatform                       Win32NT\r\nPSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}\r\nPSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3\r\nSerializationVersion           1.1.0.1\r\nWSManStackVersion              3.0\r\n```\r\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/burkasaurusrex","@type":"Person","name":"burkasaurusrex"},"datePublished":"2019-02-21T03:21:54.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":3},"url":"https://github.com/8935/PowerShell/issues/8935"}