diff --git a/lib/request/connect.py b/lib/request/connect.py
index 6139eac15..40e873fe3 100644
--- a/lib/request/connect.py
+++ b/lib/request/connect.py
@@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ class Connect(object):
                 status = getUnicode(conn.msg)
 
             if extractRegexResult(META_REFRESH_REGEX, page) and not refreshing:
-                url = extractRegexResult(META_REFRESH_REGEX, page)
+                refresh = extractRegexResult(META_REFRESH_REGEX, page)
 
                 debugMsg = "got HTML meta refresh header"
                 logger.debug(debugMsg)
@@ -491,13 +491,14 @@ class Connect(object):
                     kb.alwaysRefresh = choice not in ("n", "N")
 
                 if kb.alwaysRefresh:
-                    if url.lower().startswith('http://'):
-                        kwargs['url'] = url
+                    if re.search(r"\Ahttps?://", refresh, re.I):
+                        url = refresh
                     else:
-                        kwargs['url'] = conf.url[:conf.url.rfind('/') + 1] + url
+                        url = urlparse.urljoin(url, refresh)
 
                     threadData.lastRedirectMsg = (threadData.lastRequestUID, page)
                     kwargs['refreshing'] = True
+                    kwargs['url'] = url
                     kwargs['get'] = None
                     kwargs['post'] = None