diff --git a/src/client/mod.rs b/src/client/mod.rs
index 93abe81..74c0ba3 100644
--- a/src/client/mod.rs
+++ b/src/client/mod.rs
@@ -49,19 +49,55 @@ impl Client {
 }
 
 impl Client {
-    /// Parse the given URL, do some checks,
-    /// take host and port (default is 1965) from the URL
-    /// and perform a Gemini request, returning [`Response`] on success.
+    /// Perform a Gemini request with the specified URL.
+    /// Host and port (1965 by default) are parsed from `url_str`
+    /// after scheme and userinfo checks.
+    /// On success, [`Response`] is returned.
+    ///
+    /// Automatically follows redirections up to 5 times.
+    /// To avoid this behavior, use [`Client::request_with_no_redirect`],
+    /// this function is also called here under the hood.
+    ///
+    /// Returns an error if a scheme is not `gemini://` or
+    /// a userinfo portion (`user:password@`) is present in the URL.
+    /// To avoid this checks, most probably for proxying requests,
+    /// use [`Client::request_with_host`].
     ///
     /// # Errors
-    /// Everything is converted into [`LibError`].
-    /// - [`InvalidUrl::ParseError`] means that the given URL cannot be parsed.
-    /// - [`InvalidUrl::SchemeNotGemini`] is returned when the scheme is not `gemini://`
-    ///   (for proxying use [`Client::request_with_host`]).
-    /// - [`InvalidUrl::UserinfoPresent`] is returned when the URL contains userinfo -- `user:password@` --
-    ///   which is forbidden by the Gemini specs.
-    /// - For the rest, see [`Client::request_with_host`].
+    /// - See [`Client::request_with_no_redirect`].
     pub async fn request(&self, url_str: &str) -> Result<ThisResponse, LibError> {
+        // first request
+        let mut resp = self.request_with_no_redirect(url_str).await?;
+
+        let mut i: u8 = 0;
+        const MAX: u8 = 5;
+
+        // repeat requests until we get a non-30 status
+        // or hit the redirection depth limit
+        loop {
+            if resp.status().reply_type() == ReplyType::Redirect && i < MAX {
+                resp = self.request_with_no_redirect(resp.message()).await?;
+                i += 1;
+                continue;
+            }
+            return Ok(resp);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /// Perform a Gemini request with the specified URL
+    /// **without** following redirections.
+    /// Host and port (1965 by default) are parsed from `url_str`
+    /// after scheme and userinfo checks.
+    /// On success, [`Response`] is returned.
+    ///
+    /// # Errors
+    /// - [`InvalidUrl::ParseError`] means that the given URL cannot be parsed.
+    /// - [`InvalidUrl::SchemeNotGemini`] is returned when a scheme is not `gemini://`,
+    ///   for proxying requests use [`Client::request_with_host`].
+    /// - [`InvalidUrl::UserinfoPresent`] is returned when the given URL contains
+    ///   a userinfo portion (`user:password@`) -- it is forbidden by the Gemini specification.
+    /// - See [`Client::request_with_host`] for the rest.
+    pub async fn request_with_no_redirect(&self, url_str: &str) -> Result<ThisResponse, LibError> {
         let url = Url::parse(url_str).map_err(InvalidUrl::ParseError)?;
         // deny non-Gemini requests
         if url.scheme() != "gemini" {
@@ -82,17 +118,22 @@ impl Client {
     /// Non-`gemini://` URLs is OK if the remote server supports proxying.
     ///
     /// # Errors
-    /// Everything is converted into [`LibError`].
-    /// - [`InvalidUrl::ConvertError`] is an error while converting
-    ///   host and port into [`std::net::SocketAddr`] or [`pki_types::ServerName`].
-    /// - [`std::io::Error`] is returned in nearly all cases:
+    /// - [`InvalidUrl::ConvertError`] means that a hostname cannot be
+    ///   converted into [`pki_types::ServerName`].
+    /// - [`LibError::HostLookupError`] means that a DNS server returned no records,
+    ///   i.&nbsp;e. that domain does not exist.
+    /// - [`LibError::DnsClientError`] (crate feature `hickory`)
+    ///   wraps a Hickory DNS client error related to a connection failure
+    ///   or an invalid DNS server response.
+    /// - [`std::io::Error`] is returned in many cases:
     ///   could not open a TCP connection, perform a TLS handshake,
     ///   write to or read from the TCP stream.
-    ///   Check the inner error if you need to determine what exactly happened.
-    /// - [`LibError::StatusOutOfRange`] means that a server returned an incorrect status code
-    ///   (less than 10 or greater than 69).
+    ///   Check the ErrorKind and/or the inner error
+    ///   if you need to determine what exactly happened.
+    /// - [`LibError::StatusOutOfRange`] means that a Gemini server returned
+    ///   an invalid status code (less than 10 or greater than 69).
     /// - [`LibError::DataNotUtf8`] is returned when metadata (the text after a status code)
-    ///   is not in UTF-8 and cannot be converted to string without errors.
+    ///   is not in UTF-8 and cannot be converted to a string without errors.
     pub async fn request_with_host(
         &self,
         url_str: &str,
diff --git a/src/client/tests/mod.rs b/src/client/tests/mod.rs
index 49f39d8..3d857b0 100644
--- a/src/client/tests/mod.rs
+++ b/src/client/tests/mod.rs
@@ -50,9 +50,18 @@ fn check_real_site() {
         .with_selfsigned_cert_verifier(Verifier {})
         .build();
 
-    rt.block_on(client.request("gemini://geminiprotocol.net/docs"))
+    let resp = rt
+        .block_on(client.request("gemini://geminiprotocol.net/docs"))
         .unwrap();
 
+    assert_eq!(resp.is_ok(), true); // check if redirection is processed correctly
+
+    {
+        let mime = resp.mime().unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(mime.type_(), mime::TEXT);
+        assert_eq!(mime.subtype(), "gemini");
+    }
+
     struct Verifier;
 
     #[async_trait::async_trait]