diff --git a/xmlrpc-c-30x-redirect.patch b/xmlrpc-c-30x-redirect.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..32d9124
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xmlrpc-c-30x-redirect.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+From 07f7798d0b6c9b187dd6bfa567be74a224baf1fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
+Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:25:32 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH 5/5] allow 30x redirections
+
+---
+ lib/curl_transport/curltransaction.c |    4 ++++
+ 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/lib/curl_transport/curltransaction.c b/lib/curl_transport/curltransaction.c
+index 3c75010..e1cfc64 100644
+--- a/lib/curl_transport/curltransaction.c
++++ b/lib/curl_transport/curltransaction.c
+@@ -495,6 +495,10 @@ setupCurlSession(xmlrpc_env *               const envP,
+     curl_easy_setopt(curlSessionP, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
+     curl_easy_setopt(curlSessionP, CURLOPT_URL, curlTransactionP->serverUrl);
+
++    curl_easy_setopt(curlSessionP, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
++    curl_easy_setopt(curlSessionP, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, (long)10);
++    curl_easy_setopt(curlSessionP, CURLOPT_POSTREDIR, CURL_REDIR_POST_ALL);
++
+     XMLRPC_MEMBLOCK_APPEND(char, envP, callXmlP, "\0", 1);
+     if (!envP->fault_occurred) {
+         curl_easy_setopt(curlSessionP, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,
+--
+1.7.1.1
diff --git a/xmlrpc-c.spec b/xmlrpc-c.spec
index 014f4c6..f6f218c 100644
--- a/xmlrpc-c.spec
+++ b/xmlrpc-c.spec
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ Patch100:	xmlrpc-c-cmake.patch
 Patch102:	xmlrpc-c-printf-size_t.patch
 Patch105:	xmlrpc-c-longlong.patch
 Patch107:	xmlrpc-c-uninit-curl.patch
+Patch108:	xmlrpc-c-30x-redirect.patch
 
 
 BuildRoot:	%_tmppath/%name-%version-%release-root
@@ -112,6 +113,7 @@ This package contains some handy XML-RPC demo applications.
 %patch102 -p1
 %patch105 -p1
 %patch107 -p1
+%patch108 -p1
 
 ## not needed...
 rm doc/{INSTALL,configure_doc}
@@ -232,6 +234,7 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %changelog
 * Thu Jul 29 2010 Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> - 1.23.01-1400.svn1958
 - updated to 1.23.01
+- added patch to make curl follow HTTP POST 301 redirects (#618504)
 
 * Sun Apr 18 2010 Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> - 1.22.01-1400.svn1907
 - updated to 1.22.01 (svn 1907)