diff --git a/http/http-advanced/src/test/java/io/quarkus/ts/http/advanced/DomainSocketIT.java b/http/http-advanced/src/test/java/io/quarkus/ts/http/advanced/DomainSocketIT.java
index 6bcf8d73c4..1343db35a7 100644
--- a/http/http-advanced/src/test/java/io/quarkus/ts/http/advanced/DomainSocketIT.java
+++ b/http/http-advanced/src/test/java/io/quarkus/ts/http/advanced/DomainSocketIT.java
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicReference;
 
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Disabled;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Tag;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.condition.DisabledIfSystemProperty;
@@ -25,6 +26,7 @@
 import io.vertx.ext.web.client.predicate.ResponsePredicate;
 import io.vertx.ext.web.codec.BodyCodec;
 
+@Disabled("https://github.com/quarkusio/quarkus/issues/33679")
 @QuarkusScenario
 @Tag("https://github.com/quarkusio/quarkus/issues/24739")
 @DisabledOnOs(value = OS.WINDOWS, disabledReason = "Netty Native Transport not supported on Windows, see https://quarkus.io/guides/vertx-reference#native-transport")
diff --git a/http/vertx/src/test/java/io/quarkus/ts/vertx/AbstractVertxIT.java b/http/vertx/src/test/java/io/quarkus/ts/vertx/AbstractVertxIT.java
index 7bc567a2fa..01f241cd67 100644
--- a/http/vertx/src/test/java/io/quarkus/ts/vertx/AbstractVertxIT.java
+++ b/http/vertx/src/test/java/io/quarkus/ts/vertx/AbstractVertxIT.java
@@ -12,7 +12,13 @@
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Objects;
 
+import io.vertx.core.Vertx;
+import io.vertx.core.http.HttpClient;
+import io.vertx.core.http.HttpClientRequest;
+import io.vertx.core.http.HttpClientResponse;
+import io.vertx.core.http.HttpMethod;
 import org.apache.http.HttpStatus;
+import org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 
 import io.restassured.response.Response;
@@ -41,6 +47,23 @@ public void httpServerParsing() {
         requests().get("/hello?name=you").then().statusCode(HttpStatus.SC_OK).body("content", is("Hello, you!"));
     }
 
+    @Test
+    public void httpClient() {
+      HttpClient httpClient = Vertx.vertx().createHttpClient();
+      httpClient.request(HttpMethod.GET, "/hello")
+        .onComplete(httpClientRequestAsyncResult -> {
+          if (httpClientRequestAsyncResult.succeeded()) {
+            HttpClientRequest httpClientRequest = httpClientRequestAsyncResult.result();
+            httpClientRequest.send()
+              .onComplete(httpClientResponseAsyncResult -> {
+                HttpClientResponse httpClientResponse = httpClientResponseAsyncResult.result();
+                assertEquals(200, httpClientResponse.statusCode());
+                MatcherAssert.assertThat(httpClientResponse.body(), is("Hello World!"));
+              });
+          }
+        });
+    }
+
     public abstract RequestSpecification requests();
 
     private Map<String, Metric> parseMetrics(String body) {