diff --git a/openerp/http.py b/openerp/http.py
index c4c1f95fabf..05778f0d290 100644
--- a/openerp/http.py
+++ b/openerp/http.py
@@ -160,6 +160,7 @@ def redirect_with_hash(url, code=303):
     # See extensive test page at http://greenbytes.de/tech/tc/httpredirects/
     if request.httprequest.user_agent.browser in ('firefox',):
         return werkzeug.utils.redirect(url, code)
+    url = url.strip()
     if urlparse.urlparse(url, scheme='http').scheme not in ('http', 'https'):
         url = 'http://' + url
     url = url.replace("'", "%27").replace("<", "%3C")