diff --git a/src/main/java/com/commafeed/backend/feeds/FeedRefreshWorker.java b/src/main/java/com/commafeed/backend/feeds/FeedRefreshWorker.java
index 4c198fa4..f1c2bfa4 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/commafeed/backend/feeds/FeedRefreshWorker.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/commafeed/backend/feeds/FeedRefreshWorker.java
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;
 
 import org.apache.commons.codec.digest.DigestUtils;
 import org.apache.commons.lang.time.DateUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.ObjectUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 
 import com.codahale.metrics.MetricRegistry;
 import com.commafeed.backend.HttpGetter.NotModifiedException;
@@ -86,17 +88,21 @@ public class FeedRefreshWorker {
 		int refreshInterval = applicationSettingsService.get().getRefreshIntervalMinutes();
 		Date disabledUntil = DateUtils.addMinutes(new Date(), refreshInterval);
 		try {
-			FetchedFeed fetchedFeed = fetcher.fetch(feed.getUrl(), false, feed.getLastModifiedHeader(), feed.getEtagHeader(),
+			String url = ObjectUtils.firstNonNull(feed.getUrlAfterRedirect(), feed.getUrl());
+			FetchedFeed fetchedFeed = fetcher.fetch(url, false, feed.getLastModifiedHeader(), feed.getEtagHeader(),
 					feed.getLastPublishedDate(), feed.getLastContentHash());
-			// stops here if NotModifiedException or any other exception is
-			// thrown
+			// stops here if NotModifiedException or any other exception is thrown
 			List<FeedEntry> entries = fetchedFeed.getEntries();
 
 			if (applicationSettingsService.get().isHeavyLoad()) {
 				disabledUntil = FeedUtils.buildDisabledUntil(fetchedFeed.getFeed().getLastEntryDate(), fetchedFeed.getFeed()
 						.getAverageEntryInterval(), disabledUntil);
 			}
-
+			String urlAfterRedirect = fetchedFeed.getUrlAfterRedirect();
+			if (StringUtils.equals(url, urlAfterRedirect)) {
+				urlAfterRedirect = null;
+			}
+			feed.setUrlAfterRedirect(urlAfterRedirect);
 			feed.setLink(fetchedFeed.getFeed().getLink());
 			feed.setLastModifiedHeader(fetchedFeed.getFeed().getLastModifiedHeader());
 			feed.setEtagHeader(fetchedFeed.getFeed().getEtagHeader());
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/commafeed/backend/model/Feed.java b/src/main/java/com/commafeed/backend/model/Feed.java
index ac057981..51771b7c 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/commafeed/backend/model/Feed.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/commafeed/backend/model/Feed.java
@@ -33,6 +33,12 @@ public class Feed extends AbstractModel {
 	@Column(length = 2048, nullable = false)
 	private String url;
 
+	/**
+	 * cache the url after potential http 30x redirects
+	 */
+	@Column(name = "url_after_redirect", length = 2048, nullable = false)
+	private String urlAfterRedirect;
+
 	@Column(length = 2048, nullable = false)
 	private String normalizedUrl;
 
@@ -130,11 +136,4 @@ public class Feed extends AbstractModel {
 	@Temporal(TemporalType.TIMESTAMP)
 	private Date pushLastPing;
 
-	public Feed() {
-
-	}
-
-	public Feed(String url) {
-		this.url = url;
-	}
 }
diff --git a/src/main/resources/changelogs/db.changelog-1.3.xml b/src/main/resources/changelogs/db.changelog-1.3.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..65e576fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/resources/changelogs/db.changelog-1.3.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
+<databaseChangeLog xmlns="http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog http://www.liquibase.org/xml/ns/dbchangelog/dbchangelog-3.0.xsd">
+
+	<changeSet author="athou" id="add-url-after-redirect">
+		<addColumn tableName="FEEDS">
+			<column name="url_after_redirect" type="VARCHAR(2048)" />
+		</addColumn>
+	</changeSet>
+
+</databaseChangeLog>
diff --git a/src/main/resources/changelogs/db.changelog-master.xml b/src/main/resources/changelogs/db.changelog-master.xml
index 3fb6e8e1..c6b5d944 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/changelogs/db.changelog-master.xml
+++ b/src/main/resources/changelogs/db.changelog-master.xml
@@ -6,5 +6,6 @@
 	<include file="changelogs/db.changelog-1.0.xml" />
 	<include file="changelogs/db.changelog-1.1.xml" />
 	<include file="changelogs/db.changelog-1.2.xml" />
+	<include file="changelogs/db.changelog-1.3.xml" />
 	
 </databaseChangeLog> 
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