diff --git a/lib/weblib.php b/lib/weblib.php
index d279dec45d0..cce6d6a97f6 100644
--- a/lib/weblib.php
+++ b/lib/weblib.php
@@ -1695,8 +1695,7 @@ function print_header ($title='', $heading='', $navigation='', $focus='', $meta=
                        $cache=true, $button=' ', $menu='', $usexml=false, $bodytags='') {
 
     global $USER, $CFG, $THEME, $SESSION, $ME, $SITE, $HTTPSPAGEREQUIRED;
-
-
+    
 /// This is an ugly hack to be replaced later by a proper global $COURSE
     global $course;
     if (!empty($course->lang)) {
@@ -3939,18 +3938,21 @@ function notice_yesno ($message, $linkyes, $linkno) {
  */
 function redirect($url, $message='', $delay='0') {
 
-    $url     = clean_text($url);
+    //$url     = clean_text($url);
     $message = clean_text($message);
 
     $url = html_entity_decode($url); // for php < 4.3.0 this is defined in moodlelib.php
     $url = str_replace(array("\n", "\r"), '', $url); // some more cleaning
     $encodedurl = htmlentities($url);
+    $tmpstr = clean_text('<a href="'.$encodedurl.'" />'); //clean encoded URL
+    $encodedurl = substr($tmpstr, 9, strlen($tmpstr)-13);
+    $url = addslashes(html_entity_decode($encodedurl));
 
     if (empty($message)) {
         echo '<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="'. $delay .'; url='. $encodedurl .'" />';
         echo '<script type="text/javascript">'. "\n" .'<!--'. "\n". "location.replace('$url');". "\n". '//-->'. "\n". '</script>';   // To cope with Mozilla bug
     } else {
-        
+
         if (empty($delay)) {
             $delay = 3;  // There's no point having a message with no delay
         }