diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index da27287..03c6e39 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Changelog for Isso
 0.10.3 (unreleased)
 -------------------
 
-- Nothing changed yet.
+- follow redirects, #193
 
 
 0.10.2 (2016-02-21)
diff --git a/isso/utils/http.py b/isso/utils/http.py
index 3f4f879..48b968b 100644
--- a/isso/utils/http.py
+++ b/isso/utils/http.py
@@ -4,12 +4,16 @@ import socket
 
 try:
     import httplib
+    from urlparse import urlparse
 except ImportError:
     import http.client as httplib
+    from urllib.parse import urlparse
 
 from isso import dist
 from isso.wsgi import urlsplit
 
+MAX_RETRY_COUNT = 3
+
 
 class curl(object):
     """Easy to use wrapper around :module:`httplib`.  Use as context-manager
@@ -23,7 +27,7 @@ class curl(object):
     """
 
     headers = {
-        "User-Agent": "Isso/{0} (+http://posativ.org/isso)".format(dist.version)
+        "User-Agent": "Isso/{0} (+https://posativ.org/isso)".format(dist.version)
     }
 
     def __init__(self, method, host, path, timeout=3):
@@ -33,21 +37,29 @@ class curl(object):
         self.timeout = timeout
 
     def __enter__(self):
-
         host, port, ssl = urlsplit(self.host)
         http = httplib.HTTPSConnection if ssl else httplib.HTTPConnection
 
-        self.con = http(host, port, timeout=self.timeout)
-
-        try:
-            self.con.request(self.method, self.path, headers=self.headers)
-        except (httplib.HTTPException, socket.error):
-            return None
+        for _ in range(MAX_RETRY_COUNT):
+            self.con = http(host, port, timeout=self.timeout)
+            try:
+                self.con.request(self.method, self.path, headers=self.headers)
+            except (httplib.HTTPException, socket.error) as e:
+                return None
 
-        try:
-            return self.con.getresponse()
-        except (httplib.HTTPException, socket.timeout, socket.error):
-            return None
+            try:
+                resp = self.con.getresponse()
+                if resp.status == 301:
+                    location = resp.getheader('Location')
+                    if location:
+                        self.con.close()
+                        self.path = urlparse(location).path
+                    else:
+                        return None
+                else:
+                    return resp
+            except (httplib.HTTPException, socket.timeout, socket.error):
+                return None
 
     def __exit__(self, exc_type, exc_value, traceback):
         self.con.close()