diff --git a/libavformat/http.c b/libavformat/http.c
index be82352b9f..0c26cd5eab 100644
--- a/libavformat/http.c
+++ b/libavformat/http.c
@@ -298,6 +298,7 @@ static int process_line(URLContext *h, char *line, int line_count,
 {
     HTTPContext *s = h->priv_data;
     char *tag, *p, *end;
+    char redirected_location[MAX_URL_SIZE];
 
     /* end of header */
     if (line[0] == '\0') {
@@ -337,7 +338,8 @@ static int process_line(URLContext *h, char *line, int line_count,
         while (av_isspace(*p))
             p++;
         if (!av_strcasecmp(tag, "Location")) {
-            av_strlcpy(s->location, p, sizeof(s->location));
+            ff_make_absolute_url(redirected_location, sizeof(redirected_location), s->location, p);
+            av_strlcpy(s->location, redirected_location, sizeof(s->location));
             *new_location = 1;
         } else if (!av_strcasecmp (tag, "Content-Length") && s->filesize == -1) {
             s->filesize = strtoll(p, NULL, 10);