Index: modules/simpletest/drupal_web_test_case.php
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RCS file: /cvs/drupal/drupal/modules/simpletest/drupal_web_test_case.php,v
retrieving revision 1.46
diff -u -r1.46 drupal_web_test_case.php
--- modules/simpletest/drupal_web_test_case.php	1 Oct 2008 00:27:29 -0000	1.46
+++ modules/simpletest/drupal_web_test_case.php	2 Oct 2008 18:12:59 -0000
@@ -877,6 +877,16 @@
     // previous options.
     $out = $this->curlExec(array(CURLOPT_HTTPGET => TRUE, CURLOPT_URL => url($path, $options), CURLOPT_HEADER => FALSE, CURLOPT_NOBODY => FALSE));
     $this->refreshVariables(); // Ensure that any changes to variables in the other thread are picked up.
+
+    // Check for meta refresh tag and if found call drupalGet recursively.
+    if ($this->parse()) {
+      $refresh = $this->xpath('//meta[@http-equiv="Refresh"]');
+      if ($refresh) {
+        if (preg_match('/(\d+);[ ]+URL=(.*)/', $refresh['content'], $match)) {
+          $this->drupalGet($this->getAbsoluteUrl(urldecode($match[2])));
+        }
+      }
+    }
     return $out;
   }