diff --git a/crates/perry-ext-http/src/lib.rs b/crates/perry-ext-http/src/lib.rs
index 7cc0a790e3..e72c42bbbd 100644
--- a/crates/perry-ext-http/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/perry-ext-http/src/lib.rs
@@ -250,7 +250,19 @@ fn node_env_proxy_enabled() -> bool {
 
 /// Apply the Node-conformant proxy policy to a reqwest client builder: honor
 /// the standard proxy env vars only when `NODE_USE_ENV_PROXY=1`, matching Node.
+///
+/// Also disables reqwest's default redirect-following. Node's
+/// `http.request`/`http.get`/`https.request` NEVER follow redirects — a 3xx is
+/// delivered to the caller verbatim (only `fetch` follows, per its WHATWG
+/// redirect mode). reqwest follows up to 10 hops by default, which is
+/// observably wrong for the Node client and, worse, turned Next.js's
+/// `proxyRequest` (its bundled `http-proxy` runs over this client) into an
+/// infinite loop: a proxied sub-request that 307-redirects back to the entry
+/// path was auto-followed here instead of relayed for a transparent response,
+/// so the router re-resolved the same middleware rewrite forever (a locale
+/// middleware where `/` rewrites to `/en` and `/en` 307s back to `/`).
 pub(crate) fn apply_node_proxy_policy(builder: reqwest::ClientBuilder) -> reqwest::ClientBuilder {
+    let builder = builder.redirect(reqwest::redirect::Policy::none());
     if node_env_proxy_enabled() {
         builder
     } else {
diff --git a/crates/perry-stdlib/src/http.rs b/crates/perry-stdlib/src/http.rs
index 887fdee420..cb5e65023e 100644
--- a/crates/perry-stdlib/src/http.rs
+++ b/crates/perry-stdlib/src/http.rs
@@ -925,6 +925,8 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn js_http_client_request_end(handle: Handle, body_f64: f6
     let req_handle = handle;
     spawn(async move {
         let mut builder = reqwest::Client::builder();
+        // Node's http client never follows redirects; disable reqwest's default (rationale: `apply_node_proxy_policy` in `perry-ext-http`).
+        builder = builder.redirect(reqwest::redirect::Policy::none());
         builder = if let Some(timeout) = timeout_ms {
             builder.timeout(std::time::Duration::from_millis(timeout))
         } else {
diff --git a/test-files/test_gap_http_client_no_redirect_follow.ts b/test-files/test_gap_http_client_no_redirect_follow.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d95fc8ec57
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test-files/test_gap_http_client_no_redirect_follow.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+// Regression: Node's `http.get`/`http.request` client must NOT follow HTTP
+// redirects — a 3xx response is delivered to the caller verbatim (only `fetch`
+// follows, per its WHATWG redirect mode). Perry's Node http client is built on
+// reqwest, whose DEFAULT policy silently follows up to 10 hops. That auto-follow
+// is observably wrong (the caller sees the final 200 instead of the 307) and,
+// worse, made Next.js's `proxyRequest` (its bundled `http-proxy` runs over this
+// client) loop forever: a proxied sub-request that 307-redirects back to the
+// entry path was followed instead of relayed, so the router re-resolved the same
+// locale-middleware rewrite endlessly (`/` rewrites to `/en`, `/en` 307s to `/`).
+//
+// The observable: the client must report the 307 and the `location` header, and
+// the server must be hit exactly ONCE — byte-for-byte identical to
+// `node --experimental-strip-types`.
+
+import { createServer, get } from "node:http";
+
+const PORT = 18993;
+let serverHits = 0;
+
+const server = createServer((req: any, res: any) => {
+  serverHits++;
+  if (req.url === "/target") {
+    res.statusCode = 200;
+    res.end("FINAL");
+    return;
+  }
+  res.statusCode = 307;
+  res.setHeader("location", `http://127.0.0.1:${PORT}/target`);
+  res.end("redirect-body");
+});
+
+server.listen(PORT, () => {
+  get(`http://127.0.0.1:${PORT}/start`, (res: any) => {
+    let body = "";
+    res.setEncoding("utf8");
+    res.on("data", (c: string) => (body += c));
+    res.on("end", () => {
+      console.log(`status=${res.statusCode}`);
+      console.log(`location=${res.headers.location}`);
+      console.log(`body=${body}`);
+      console.log(`serverHits=${serverHits}`);
+      console.log(`followed=${res.statusCode === 200}`);
+      server.close();
+    });
+  });
+});