diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 0519c6f13..7cb4bbc2e 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ URIs = "5c2747f8-b7ea-4ff2-ba2e-563bfd36b1d4"
 [compat]
 IniFile = "0.5"
 MbedTLS = "0.6.8, 0.7, 1"
-URIs = "1.1"
+URIs = "1.3"
 julia = "0.7, 1"
 
 [extras]
diff --git a/src/RedirectRequest.jl b/src/RedirectRequest.jl
index 2d087a8b3..53fa3b173 100644
--- a/src/RedirectRequest.jl
+++ b/src/RedirectRequest.jl
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ function request(::Type{RedirectLayer{Next}},
 
         kw = merge(merge(NamedTuple(), kw), (parent = res,))
         oldurl = url
-        url = absuri(location, url)
+        url = resolvereference(url, location)
         if forwardheaders
             headers = filter(headers) do h
                 # false return values are filtered out