diff --git a/django/test/client.py b/django/test/client.py
index 30ef746f6c09f..94fabcf91aab8 100644
--- a/django/test/client.py
+++ b/django/test/client.py
@@ -546,19 +546,18 @@ def _handle_redirects(self, response, **extra):
         response.redirect_chain = []
         while response.status_code in (301, 302, 303, 307):
             url = response['Location']
-            scheme, netloc, path, query, fragment = urlsplit(url)
-
             redirect_chain = response.redirect_chain
             redirect_chain.append((url, response.status_code))
 
-            if scheme:
-                extra['wsgi.url_scheme'] = scheme
+            url = urlsplit(url)
+            if url.scheme:
+                extra['wsgi.url_scheme'] = url.scheme
+            if url.hostname:
+                extra['SERVER_NAME'] = url.hostname
+            if url.port:
+                extra['SERVER_PORT'] = str(url.port)
 
-            # The test client doesn't handle external links,
-            # but since the situation is simulated in test_client,
-            # we fake things here by ignoring the netloc portion of the
-            # redirected URL.
-            response = self.get(path, QueryDict(query), follow=False, **extra)
+            response = self.get(url.path, QueryDict(url.query), follow=False, **extra)
             response.redirect_chain = redirect_chain
 
             # Prevent loops
diff --git a/tests/regressiontests/test_client_regress/models.py b/tests/regressiontests/test_client_regress/models.py
index b1e5bc4ff0da7..7d0b0e412f877 100644
--- a/tests/regressiontests/test_client_regress/models.py
+++ b/tests/regressiontests/test_client_regress/models.py
@@ -368,6 +368,18 @@ def test_redirect_chain_delete(self):
             '/test_client_regress/no_template_view/', 301, 200)
         self.assertEqual(len(response.redirect_chain), 3)
 
+    def test_redirect_to_different_host(self):
+        "The test client will preserve scheme, host and port changes"
+        response = self.client.get('/test_client_regress/redirect_other_host/', follow=True)
+        self.assertRedirects(response,
+            'https://otherserver:8443/test_client_regress/no_template_view/',
+            status_code=301, target_status_code=200)
+        # We can't use is_secure() or get_host()
+        # because response.request is a dictionary, not an HttpRequest
+        self.assertEqual(response.request.get('wsgi.url_scheme'), 'https')
+        self.assertEqual(response.request.get('SERVER_NAME'), 'otherserver')
+        self.assertEqual(response.request.get('SERVER_PORT'), '8443')
+
     def test_redirect_chain_on_non_redirect_page(self):
         "An assertion is raised if the original page couldn't be retrieved as expected"
         # This page will redirect with code 301, not 302
diff --git a/tests/regressiontests/test_client_regress/urls.py b/tests/regressiontests/test_client_regress/urls.py
index 5590c2337dbf2..93f7a2e2f269a 100644
--- a/tests/regressiontests/test_client_regress/urls.py
+++ b/tests/regressiontests/test_client_regress/urls.py
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
     (r'^circular_redirect_1/$', RedirectView.as_view(url='/test_client_regress/circular_redirect_2/')),
     (r'^circular_redirect_2/$', RedirectView.as_view(url='/test_client_regress/circular_redirect_3/')),
     (r'^circular_redirect_3/$', RedirectView.as_view(url='/test_client_regress/circular_redirect_1/')),
+    (r'^redirect_other_host/$', RedirectView.as_view(url='https://otherserver:8443/test_client_regress/no_template_view/')),
     (r'^set_session/$', views.set_session_view),
     (r'^check_session/$', views.check_session_view),
     (r'^request_methods/$', views.request_methods_view),