http.request not working on Espruino Wifi

Hi all,
I can for the life of me not get the http.request to work but the http.get works just fine. Please see the code I use below. The http.request just does nothing, seemingly the callbacks don't get fired at all.
I played around with all kind of different options, but none seem to work. I'm puzzled... once again.

var wifi = require("Wifi");
var WIFI_NAME = "xxxx";
var WIFI_OPTIONS = {
  password: "yyyyy"
};
var http = require("http");

function onInit() {
  print("connecting...");
  // Connect to WiFi
  wifi.connect(WIFI_NAME, WIFI_OPTIONS, err => {
  if (err !== null) {
    throw err;
  }
  // Print IP address
  wifi.getIP((err, info) => {
    if (err !== null) {
      throw err;
    }
    print("http://"+info.ip);
        
    //works
    simpleGet();
    
    //doesn't work
    requestGet();
    
  });
});
}

function simpleGet(){
  http.get("http://www.pur3.co.uk/hello.tx­t", function(res) {
  res.on('data', function(data) {
    console.log(data);
  });
});
}

function requestGet(){
  var options = {
    host: 'http://www.pur3.co.uk',
    protocol: 'http:',
    port: 80,
    path: '/',
    method: 'GET',
  };
  http.request(options, function(res) {
  res.on('data', function(data) {
    console.log(data);
  });
  res.on('close', function(data) {
    console.log("Connection closed");
  });
}); 
}