diff --git a/http/rest-client-reactive/pom.xml b/http/rest-client-reactive/pom.xml
index 36453b468..dc07b8595 100644
--- a/http/rest-client-reactive/pom.xml
+++ b/http/rest-client-reactive/pom.xml
@@ -31,5 +31,15 @@
             <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
             <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.wiremock</groupId>
+            <artifactId>wiremock</artifactId>
+            <version>3.2.0</version>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>io.quarkus</groupId>
+            <artifactId>quarkus-smallrye-fault-tolerance</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 </project>
diff --git a/http/rest-client-reactive/src/main/java/io/quarkus/ts/http/restclient/reactive/MalformedClient.java b/http/rest-client-reactive/src/main/java/io/quarkus/ts/http/restclient/reactive/MalformedClient.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6a6e286e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/http/rest-client-reactive/src/main/java/io/quarkus/ts/http/restclient/reactive/MalformedClient.java
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+package io.quarkus.ts.http.restclient.reactive;
+
+import static java.time.temporal.ChronoUnit.SECONDS;
+
+import jakarta.ws.rs.GET;
+import jakarta.ws.rs.Path;
+import jakarta.ws.rs.Produces;
+import jakarta.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
+
+import org.eclipse.microprofile.faulttolerance.Timeout;
+import org.eclipse.microprofile.rest.client.annotation.RegisterClientHeaders;
+import org.eclipse.microprofile.rest.client.inject.RegisterRestClient;
+
+@RegisterRestClient
+@Path("/malformed")
+@RegisterClientHeaders
+@Timeout(value = 5, unit = SECONDS)
+public interface MalformedClient {
+
+    @GET
+    @Path("/")
+    @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
+    String get();
+}
diff --git a/http/rest-client-reactive/src/main/java/io/quarkus/ts/http/restclient/reactive/resources/MalformedClientResource.java b/http/rest-client-reactive/src/main/java/io/quarkus/ts/http/restclient/reactive/resources/MalformedClientResource.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..97a788a7a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/http/rest-client-reactive/src/main/java/io/quarkus/ts/http/restclient/reactive/resources/MalformedClientResource.java
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+package io.quarkus.ts.http.restclient.reactive.resources;
+
+import jakarta.inject.Inject;
+import jakarta.ws.rs.GET;
+import jakarta.ws.rs.Path;
+
+import org.eclipse.microprofile.rest.client.inject.RestClient;
+
+import io.quarkus.ts.http.restclient.reactive.MalformedClient;
+
+@Path("/client/malformed")
+public class MalformedClientResource {
+    @Inject
+    @RestClient
+    MalformedClient client;
+
+    @GET
+    @Path("/")
+    public String getMalformed() {
+        try {
+            return client.get();
+        } catch (Exception ex) {
+            return ex.getClass().getName();
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/http/rest-client-reactive/src/main/resources/modern.properties b/http/rest-client-reactive/src/main/resources/modern.properties
index 4f9f899f6..f549a895c 100644
--- a/http/rest-client-reactive/src/main/resources/modern.properties
+++ b/http/rest-client-reactive/src/main/resources/modern.properties
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ quarkus.rest-client."io.quarkus.ts.http.restclient.reactive.files.FileClient".ur
 quarkus.rest-client."io.quarkus.ts.http.restclient.reactive.BookClient".url=http://localhost:${quarkus.http.port}
 quarkus.rest-client."io.quarkus.ts.http.restclient.reactive.BookClient.AuthorClient".url=http://localhost:${quarkus.http.port}
 quarkus.rest-client."io.quarkus.ts.http.restclient.reactive.ResourceAndSubResourcesClient".url=http://localhost:${quarkus.http.port}
+quarkus.rest-client."io.quarkus.ts.http.restclient.reactive.MalformedClient".url=http://localhost:${quarkus.http.port}
 
 quarkus.rest-client.logging.scope=request-response
 quarkus.log.category."org.jboss.resteasy.reactive.client.logging".level=DEBUG
diff --git a/http/rest-client-reactive/src/test/java/io/quarkus/ts/http/restclient/reactive/ReactiveRestClientIT.java b/http/rest-client-reactive/src/test/java/io/quarkus/ts/http/restclient/reactive/ReactiveRestClientIT.java
index 97e104322..d156121c1 100644
--- a/http/rest-client-reactive/src/test/java/io/quarkus/ts/http/restclient/reactive/ReactiveRestClientIT.java
+++ b/http/rest-client-reactive/src/test/java/io/quarkus/ts/http/restclient/reactive/ReactiveRestClientIT.java
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 package io.quarkus.ts.http.restclient.reactive;
 
+import static com.github.tomakehurst.wiremock.core.Options.ChunkedEncodingPolicy.NEVER;
 import static io.quarkus.ts.http.restclient.reactive.resources.PlainBookResource.SEARCH_TERM_VAL;
 import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.is;
 import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.nullValue;
@@ -8,9 +9,16 @@
 import java.util.UUID;
 
 import org.apache.http.HttpStatus;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.AfterAll;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Tag;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 
+import com.github.tomakehurst.wiremock.WireMockServer;
+import com.github.tomakehurst.wiremock.client.WireMock;
+import com.github.tomakehurst.wiremock.core.WireMockConfiguration;
+import com.github.tomakehurst.wiremock.http.Fault;
+
 import io.quarkus.test.bootstrap.Protocol;
 import io.quarkus.test.bootstrap.RestService;
 import io.quarkus.test.scenarios.QuarkusScenario;
@@ -23,9 +31,23 @@
 public class ReactiveRestClientIT {
 
     private static final String HEMINGWAY_BOOKS = "In Our Time, The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea";
+    private static WireMockServer mockServer;
+
+    static {
+        mockServer = new WireMockServer(WireMockConfiguration.options()
+                .dynamicPort()
+                .useChunkedTransferEncoding(NEVER));
+        mockServer.stubFor(WireMock.get(WireMock.urlPathMatching("/malformed/"))
+                .willReturn(WireMock.aResponse().withFault(Fault.MALFORMED_RESPONSE_CHUNK)));
 
+        mockServer.start();
+    }
+
+    static final String MALFORMED_URL = "quarkus.rest-client.\"io.quarkus.ts.http.restclient.reactive.MalformedClient\".url";
     @QuarkusApplication
-    static RestService app = new RestService().withProperties("modern.properties");
+    static RestService app = new RestService()
+            .withProperties("modern.properties")
+            .withProperty(MALFORMED_URL, () -> mockServer.baseUrl());
 
     @Test
     public void shouldGetBookFromRestClientJson() {
@@ -226,4 +248,15 @@ public void programmaticRestClient() {
                 .statusCode(200)
                 .body(is("The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"));
     }
+
+    @Test
+    public void malformedChunk() {
+        Response response = app.given().get("/client/malformed");
+        Assertions.assertEquals("io.vertx.core.http.HttpClosedException", response.body().asString());
+    }
+
+    @AfterAll
+    static void afterAll() {
+        mockServer.stop();
+    }
 }