diff --git a/docs/examples/simple.c b/docs/examples/simple.c
index cb23b7ae3..1912ce66e 100644
--- a/docs/examples/simple.c
+++ b/docs/examples/simple.c
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
  *                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
  *                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
  *
- * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2011, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+ * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2013, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
  *
  * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
  * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ int main(void)
   curl = curl_easy_init();
   if(curl) {
     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.com");
+    /* example.com is redirected, so we tell libcurl to follow redirection */
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1L);
 
     /* Perform the request, res will get the return code */
     res = curl_easy_perform(curl);