diff -up Mosaic-src/libwww2/HTMIME.c.redirect Mosaic-src/libwww2/HTMIME.c
--- Mosaic-src/libwww2/HTMIME.c.redirect	2008-11-29 05:04:46.000000000 +0100
+++ Mosaic-src/libwww2/HTMIME.c	2008-11-29 05:07:13.000000000 +0100
@@ -658,8 +658,37 @@ PRIVATE void HTMIME_put_character ARGS2(
 #endif
 		break;
             case LOCATION:
-		me->location = me->value;
-		redirecting_url = strdup (me->location);
+		if (me->value[0] == '/' && me->anchor != NULL && me->anchor->address != NULL) {
+			char *tmp;
+			char *end;
+			int len;
+			int value_len;
+
+			/* Skip the protocol name */
+			tmp = strstr(me->anchor->address, "://");
+			if (tmp != NULL)
+				tmp += 3;
+			else
+				tmp = me->anchor->address;
+			end = strchr(tmp, '/');
+			tmp = me->anchor->address;
+			if (end != NULL)
+				len = end - tmp;
+			else
+				len = strlen(tmp);
+
+			value_len = strlen(me->value);
+
+			redirecting_url = malloc(sizeof(char) * (len + value_len + 1));
+			strncpy(redirecting_url, tmp, len);
+			strncpy(redirecting_url + len, me->value, value_len);
+			redirecting_url[len + value_len] = '\0';
+
+			me->location = strdup (redirecting_url);
+		} else {
+			me->location = me->value;
+			redirecting_url = strdup (me->location);
+		}
 #ifndef DISABLE_TRACE
 		if (www2Trace)
 			fprintf(stderr,