diff --git a/packages/astro/components/ViewTransitions.astro b/packages/astro/components/ViewTransitions.astro
index 7b556c2527..daa79ee6e0 100644
--- a/packages/astro/components/ViewTransitions.astro
+++ b/packages/astro/components/ViewTransitions.astro
@@ -64,7 +64,9 @@ const { fallback = 'animate' } = Astro.props as Props;
 	};
 
 	async function getHTML(href: string) {
-		const res = await fetch(href);
+		const res = await fetch(href, {
+			redirect: 'manual'
+		});
 		const html = await res.text();
 		return { ok: res.ok, html };
 	}
diff --git a/packages/astro/e2e/fixtures/view-transitions/astro.config.mjs b/packages/astro/e2e/fixtures/view-transitions/astro.config.mjs
index 02dc2043d5..68fdc8e2e1 100644
--- a/packages/astro/e2e/fixtures/view-transitions/astro.config.mjs
+++ b/packages/astro/e2e/fixtures/view-transitions/astro.config.mjs
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ export default defineConfig({
 	output: 'server',
 	adapter: nodejs({ mode: 'standalone' }),
 	integrations: [react()],
+	redirects: {
+		'/redirect-two': '/two',
+		'/redirect-external': 'http://example.com/',
+	},
 	vite: {
 		build: {
 			assetsInlineLimit: 0,
diff --git a/packages/astro/e2e/fixtures/view-transitions/src/pages/one.astro b/packages/astro/e2e/fixtures/view-transitions/src/pages/one.astro
index 3f9666c1d6..cc57e76d8b 100644
--- a/packages/astro/e2e/fixtures/view-transitions/src/pages/one.astro
+++ b/packages/astro/e2e/fixtures/view-transitions/src/pages/one.astro
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ import Layout from '../components/Layout.astro';
 	<a id="click-three" href="/three">go to 3</a>
 	<a id="click-longpage" href="/long-page">go to long page</a>
 	<a id="click-self" href="">go to top</a>
+	<a id="click-redirect-two" href="/redirect-two">go to redirect 2</a>
+	<a id="click-redirect-external" href="/redirect-external">go to a redirect external</a>
 
 	<div id="test">test content</div>
 </Layout>
diff --git a/packages/astro/e2e/view-transitions.test.js b/packages/astro/e2e/view-transitions.test.js
index 34f1a4e027..6d23b9684c 100644
--- a/packages/astro/e2e/view-transitions.test.js
+++ b/packages/astro/e2e/view-transitions.test.js
@@ -543,4 +543,42 @@ test.describe('View Transitions', () => {
 		p = page.locator('#one');
 		await expect(p, 'should have content').toHaveText('Page 1');
 	});
+
+	test.skip('Moving to a page which redirects to another', async ({ page, astro }) => {
+		const loads = [];
+		page.addListener('load', (p) => {
+			loads.push(p.title());
+		});
+
+		// Go to page 1
+		await page.goto(astro.resolveUrl('/one'));
+		let p = page.locator('#one');
+		await expect(p, 'should have content').toHaveText('Page 1');
+
+		// go to page 2
+		await page.click('#click-redirect-two');
+		p = page.locator('#two');
+		await expect(p, 'should have content').toHaveText('Page 2');
+
+		expect(loads.length, 'There should be 2 page loads').toEqual(2);
+	});
+
+	test.only('Redirect to external site causes page load', async ({ page, astro }) => {
+		const loads = [];
+		page.addListener('load', (p) => {
+			loads.push(p.title());
+		});
+
+		// Go to page 1
+		await page.goto(astro.resolveUrl('/one'));
+		let p = page.locator('#one');
+		await expect(p, 'should have content').toHaveText('Page 1');
+
+		// go to external page
+		await page.click('#click-redirect-external');
+		p = page.locator('h1');
+		await expect(p, 'should have content').toBeVisible();
+
+		expect(loads.length, 'There should be 2 page load').toEqual(2);
+	});
 });