diff --git a/src/api/export.ts b/src/api/export.ts
index 0fc877b..4f7e3b2 100644
--- a/src/api/export.ts
+++ b/src/api/export.ts
@@ -54,7 +54,9 @@ async function execute(emitter: EventEmitter, opts: Opts) {
 	const port = await ports.find(3000);
 
 	const origin = `http://localhost:${port}`;
-	const root = new URL(opts.basepath || '', origin);
+	let basepath = opts.basepath || '/';
+	if (!basepath.endsWith('/')) basepath += '/';
+	let root = new URL(basepath, origin);
 
 	emitter.emit('info', {
 		message: `Crawling ${root.href}`
@@ -72,29 +74,15 @@ async function execute(emitter: EventEmitter, opts: Opts) {
 
 	const seen = new Set();
 	const saved = new Set();
-	const deferreds = new Map();
 
-	function get_deferred(pathname: string) {
-		pathname = pathname.replace(root.pathname, '');
-
-		if (!deferreds.has(pathname)) {
-			deferreds.set(pathname, new Deferred());
-		}
-
-		return deferreds.get(pathname);
-	}
-
-	proc.on('message', message => {
-		if (!message.__sapper__ || message.event !== 'file') return;
-
-		const pathname = new URL(message.url, origin).pathname;
+	function save(url: string, status: number, type: string, body: string) {
+		const pathname = new URL(url, origin).pathname;
 		let file = pathname.slice(1);
-		let { body } = message;
 
 		if (saved.has(file)) return;
 		saved.add(file);
 
-		const is_html = message.type === 'text/html';
+		const is_html = type === 'text/html';
 
 		if (is_html) {
 			file = file === '' ? 'index.html' : `${file}/index.html`;
@@ -104,12 +92,15 @@ async function execute(emitter: EventEmitter, opts: Opts) {
 		emitter.emit('file', <events.FileEvent>{
 			file,
 			size: body.length,
-			status: message.status
+			status
 		});
 
 		sander.writeFileSync(export_dir, file, body);
+	}
 
-		get_deferred(pathname).fulfil();
+	proc.on('message', message => {
+		if (!message.__sapper__ || message.event !== 'file') return;
+		save(message.url, message.status, message.type, message.body);
 	});
 
 	async function handle(url: URL) {
@@ -118,25 +109,27 @@ async function execute(emitter: EventEmitter, opts: Opts) {
 		if (seen.has(pathname)) return;
 		seen.add(pathname);
 
-		const deferred = get_deferred(pathname);
-
 		const timeout_deferred = new Deferred();
 		const timeout = setTimeout(() => {
 			timeout_deferred.reject(new Error(`Timed out waiting for ${url.href}`));
 		}, opts.timeout);
 
 		const r = await Promise.race([
-			fetch(url.href),
+			fetch(url.href, {
+				redirect: 'manual'
+			}),
 			timeout_deferred.promise
 		]);
 
 		clearTimeout(timeout); // prevent it hanging at the end
 
+		let type = r.headers.get('Content-Type');
+		let body = await r.text();
+
 		const range = ~~(r.status / 100);
 
 		if (range === 2) {
-			if (r.headers.get('Content-Type') === 'text/html') {
-				const body = await r.text();
+			if (type === 'text/html') {
 				const urls: URL[] = [];
 
 				const cleaned = clean_html(body);
@@ -162,7 +155,16 @@ async function execute(emitter: EventEmitter, opts: Opts) {
 			}
 		}
 
-		await deferred.promise;
+		if (range === 3) {
+			const location = r.headers.get('Location');
+
+			type = 'text/html';
+			body = `<script>window.location.href = "${location}"</script>`;
+
+			await handle(new URL(location, root));
+		}
+
+		save(pathname, r.status, type, body);
 	}
 
 	return ports.wait(port)
diff --git a/src/middleware.ts b/src/middleware.ts
index 9f66494..7a95873 100644
--- a/src/middleware.ts
+++ b/src/middleware.ts
@@ -414,18 +414,6 @@ function get_page_handler(
 				res.setHeader('Location', location);
 				res.end();
 
-				if (process.send) {
-					process.send({
-						__sapper__: true,
-						event: 'file',
-						url: req.url,
-						method: req.method,
-						status: redirect.statusCode,
-						type: 'text/html',
-						body: `<script>window.location.href = "${location}"</script>`
-					});
-				}
-
 				return;
 			}
 
@@ -512,18 +500,6 @@ function get_page_handler(
 
 			res.statusCode = status;
 			res.end(body);
-
-			if (process.send) {
-				process.send({
-					__sapper__: true,
-					event: 'file',
-					url: req.url,
-					method: req.method,
-					status,
-					type: 'text/html',
-					body
-				});
-			}
 		}).catch(err => {
 			if (error) {
 				// we encountered an error while rendering the error page — oops
diff --git a/test/app/app/server.js b/test/app/app/server.js
index 430853c..0595bdf 100644
--- a/test/app/app/server.js
+++ b/test/app/app/server.js
@@ -108,6 +108,13 @@ const middlewares = [
 	}),
 ];
 
+app.get(`${BASEPATH}/non-sapper-redirect-from`, (req, res) => {
+	res.writeHead(301, {
+		Location: `${BASEPATH}/non-sapper-redirect-to`
+	});
+	res.end();
+});
+
 if (BASEPATH) {
 	app.use(BASEPATH, ...middlewares);
 } else {
diff --git a/test/app/routes/index.html b/test/app/routes/index.html
index b695afe..e5eecde 100644
--- a/test/app/routes/index.html
+++ b/test/app/routes/index.html
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 <a href='.'>home</a>
 <a href='about'>about</a>
 <a href='slow-preload'>slow preload</a>
+<a href='non-sapper-redirect-from'>redirect</a>
 <a href='redirect-from'>redirect</a>
 <a href='redirect-root'>redirect (root)</a>
 <a href='blog/nope'>broken link</a>
diff --git a/test/app/routes/non-sapper-redirect-to.html b/test/app/routes/non-sapper-redirect-to.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..eeb0dfc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/app/routes/non-sapper-redirect-to.html
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+<h1>redirected</h1>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/common/test.js b/test/common/test.js
index 2db23ff..2ad9730 100644
--- a/test/common/test.js
+++ b/test/common/test.js
@@ -2,9 +2,7 @@ const fs = require('fs');
 const path = require('path');
 const assert = require('assert');
 const Nightmare = require('nightmare');
-const serve = require('serve-static');
 const walkSync = require('walk-sync');
-const fetch = require('node-fetch');
 const rimraf = require('rimraf');
 const ports = require('port-authority');
 
@@ -83,6 +81,11 @@ function testExport({ basepath = '' }) {
 				'about/index.html',
 				'slow-preload/index.html',
 
+				'redirect-from/index.html',
+				'redirect-to/index.html',
+				'non-sapper-redirect-from/index.html',
+				'non-sapper-redirect-to/index.html',
+
 				'blog/index.html',
 				'blog/a-very-long-post/index.html',
 				'blog/how-can-i-get-involved/index.html',