Redirect to External URL Does Not Work

Hello!

I am trying to do a redirect on node save to an external URL. The issue is that Rules seems to be unable to redirect to anything but an internal (relative) URL.

I put in the redirect url as: http://www.externalsite.com/token1 but the redirect is issued as http://www.drupalsite.com/token1 and returns a page not found.

I do have an issue in the issue queue and another user has reported the same problem but so far, no suggestions or answers as to why this won't work. If anyone can give me some ideas on how to troubleshoot this, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks!