Added follow_location functionality to JHttpTransportSocket

libraries/joomla/http/transport/socket.php

@@ -142,7 +142,20 @@ public function request($method, JUri $uri, $data = null, array $headers = null,
 			$content .= fgets($connection, 4096);
 		}
 
-		return $this->getResponse($content);
+		$content = $this->getResponse($content);
+
+		/* Wikipedia says: A user agent should not automatically redirect a request more than five times, 
+		 * since such redirections usually indicate an infinite loop
+		 *
+		 * However JHttpTransportCurl doesn't set CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, JHttpTransportStream uses max_redirects default 20
+		 * so let's rely on severs' sanity :D
+		 */
+		if ($content->code >= 301 && $content->code < 400 && isset($content->headers['Location']))
+		{
+			return $this->request($method, new JUri($content->headers['Location']), $data, $headers, $timeout, $userAgent);
+		}
+
+		return $content;
 	}
 
 	/**