diff --git a/cake/libs/route/redirect_route.php b/cake/libs/route/redirect_route.php
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..148ce358f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cake/libs/route/redirect_route.php
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+<?php
+App::import('Core', 'CakeResponse');
+App::import('Core', 'route/CakeRoute');
+/**
+ * Redirect route will perform an immediate redirect
+ *
+ * PHP5
+ *
+ * CakePHP(tm) : Rapid Development Framework (http://cakephp.org)
+ * Copyright 2005-2010, Cake Software Foundation, Inc. (http://cakefoundation.org)
+ *
+ * Licensed under The MIT License
+ * Redistributions of files must retain the above copyright notice.
+ *
+ * @copyright     Copyright 2005-2010, Cake Software Foundation, Inc. (http://cakefoundation.org)
+ * @link          http://cakephp.org CakePHP(tm) Project
+ * @package       cake
+ * @subpackage    cake.cake.libs.route
+ * @since         CakePHP(tm) v 2.0
+ * @license       MIT License (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php)
+ */
+class RedirectRoute extends CakeRoute {
+
+/**
+ * A CakeResponse object
+ *
+ * @var CakeResponse
+ */
+	public $response = null;
+
+/**
+ * Parses a string url into an array. Parsed urls will result in an automatic
+ * redirection
+ *
+ * @param string $url The url to parse
+ * @return boolean False on failure
+ */
+	public function parse($url) {
+		$params = parent::parse($url);
+		if (!$params) {
+			return false;
+		}
+		if (!$this->response) {
+			$this->response = new CakeResponse();
+		}
+		$redirect = $this->defaults;
+		if (count($this->defaults) == 1 && !isset($this->defaults['controller'])) {
+			$redirect = $this->defaults[0];
+		}
+		if (isset($this->options['persist']) && is_array($redirect)) {
+			$argOptions['context'] = array('action' => $redirect['action'], 'controller' => $redirect['controller']);
+			$args = Router::getArgs($params['_args_'], $argOptions);
+			$redirect += $args['pass'];
+			$redirect += $args['named'];
+		}		
+		$status = 301;
+		if (isset($this->options['status']) && ($this->options['status'] >= 300 && $this->options['status'] < 400)) {
+			$status = $this->options['status'];
+		}
+		$this->response->header(array('Location' => Router::url($redirect, true)));
+		$this->response->statusCode($status);		
+		$this->response->send();
+	}
+
+/**
+ * There is no reverse routing redirection routes
+ *
+ * @param array $url Array of parameters to convert to a string.
+ * @return mixed either false or a string url.
+ */
+	public function match($url) {
+		return false;
+	}
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/cake/libs/router.php b/cake/libs/router.php
index d3a467281..f3a0b9a74 100644
--- a/cake/libs/router.php
+++ b/cake/libs/router.php
@@ -253,6 +253,41 @@ class Router {
 		return self::$routes;
 	}
 
+/**
+ * Connects a new redirection Route in the router.
+ *
+ * Redirection routes are different from normal routes as they perform an actual
+ * header redirection if a match is found. The redirection can occur within your
+ * application or redirect to an outside location.
+ *
+ * Examples:
+ *
+ * `Router::redirect('/home/*', array('controller' => 'posts', 'action' => 'view', array('persist' => true));`
+ *
+ * Redirects /home/* to /posts/view and passes the parameters to /posts/view
+ *
+ * `Router::redirect('/posts/*', 'http://google.com', array('status' => 302));`
+ *
+ * Redirects /posts/* to http://google.com with a HTTP status of 302
+ *
+ * ### Options:
+ * - `status` Sets the HTTP status (default 301)
+ * - `persist` Passes the params to the redirected route, if it can
+ *
+ * @param string $route A string describing the template of the route
+ * @param array $url A url to redirect to. Can be a string or a Cake array-based url
+ * @param array $options An array matching the named elements in the route to regular expressions which that
+ *   element should match.  Also contains additional parameters such as which routed parameters should be
+ *   shifted into the passed arguments. As well as supplying patterns for routing parameters.
+ * @see routes
+ * @return array Array of routes
+ */
+	public static function redirect($route, $url, $options) {
+		App::import('Core', 'route/RedirectRoute');
+		$options['routeClass'] = 'RedirectRoute';
+		return self::connect($route, $url, $options);
+	}
+
 /**
  * Specifies what named parameters CakePHP should be parsing. The most common setups are:
  *
diff --git a/cake/tests/cases/libs/route/redirect_route.test.php b/cake/tests/cases/libs/route/redirect_route.test.php
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..657cd28e2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cake/tests/cases/libs/route/redirect_route.test.php
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+<?php
+App::import('Core', 'route/RedirectRoute');
+App::import('Core', 'CakeResponse');
+App::import('Core', 'Router');
+/**
+ * test case for RedirectRoute
+ *
+ * @package cake.tests.libs.route
+ */
+class RedirectRouteTestCase extends  CakeTestCase {
+/**
+ * setUp method
+ *
+ * @return void
+ */
+	function setUp() {
+		parent::setUp();
+		Configure::write('Routing', array('admin' => null, 'prefixes' => array()));
+		Router::reload();
+	}
+
+/**
+ * test the parsing of routes.
+ *
+ * @return void
+ */
+	function testParsing() {
+		$route = new RedirectRoute('/home', array('controller' => 'posts'));
+		$route->response = $this->getMock('CakeResponse', array('_sendHeader'));
+		$result = $route->parse('/home');
+		$this->assertEqual($route->response->header(), array('Location' => Router::url('/posts', true)));
+
+		$route = new RedirectRoute('/home', array('controller' => 'posts', 'action' => 'index'));
+		$route->response = $this->getMock('CakeResponse', array('_sendHeader'));
+		$result = $route->parse('/home');
+		$this->assertEqual($route->response->header(), array('Location' => Router::url('/posts', true)));
+		$this->assertEqual($route->response->statusCode(), 301);
+
+		$route = new RedirectRoute('/google', 'http://google.com');
+		$route->response = $this->getMock('CakeResponse', array('_sendHeader'));
+		$result = $route->parse('/google');
+		$this->assertEqual($route->response->header(), array('Location' => 'http://google.com'));
+
+		$route = new RedirectRoute('/posts/*', array('controller' => 'posts', 'action' => 'view'), array('status' => 302));
+		$route->response = $this->getMock('CakeResponse', array('_sendHeader'));
+		$result = $route->parse('/posts/2');
+		$this->assertEqual($route->response->header(), array('Location' => Router::url('/posts/view', true)));
+		$this->assertEqual($route->response->statusCode(), 302);
+
+		$route = new RedirectRoute('/posts/*', array('controller' => 'posts', 'action' => 'view'), array('persist' => true));
+		$route->response = $this->getMock('CakeResponse', array('_sendHeader'));
+		$result = $route->parse('/posts/2');
+		$this->assertEqual($route->response->header(), array('Location' => Router::url('/posts/view/2', true)));
+
+		$route = new RedirectRoute('/posts/*', '/test', array('persist' => true));
+		$route->response = $this->getMock('CakeResponse', array('_sendHeader'));
+		$result = $route->parse('/posts/2');
+		$this->assertEqual($route->response->header(), array('Location' => Router::url('/test', true)));
+
+		$route = new RedirectRoute('/my_controllers/:action/*', array('controller' => 'tags', 'action' => 'add'), array('persist' => true));
+		$route->response = $this->getMock('CakeResponse', array('_sendHeader'));
+		$result = $route->parse('/my_controllers/do_something/passme/named:param');
+		$this->assertEqual($route->response->header(), array('Location' => Router::url('/tags/add/passme/named:param', true)));
+
+		$route = new RedirectRoute('/my_controllers/:action/*', array('controller' => 'tags', 'action' => 'add'));
+		$route->response = $this->getMock('CakeResponse', array('_sendHeader'));
+		$result = $route->parse('/my_controllers/do_something/passme/named:param');
+		$this->assertEqual($route->response->header(), array('Location' => Router::url('/tags/add', true)));
+	}
+
+}
diff --git a/cake/tests/cases/libs/router.test.php b/cake/tests/cases/libs/router.test.php
index 0178174bb..4637c234e 100644
--- a/cake/tests/cases/libs/router.test.php
+++ b/cake/tests/cases/libs/router.test.php
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
  * @license       MIT License (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php)
  */
 App::import('Core', array('Router'));
+App::import('Core', 'CakeResponse');
 
 if (!defined('FULL_BASE_URL')) {
 	define('FULL_BASE_URL', 'http://cakephp.org');
@@ -2191,4 +2192,24 @@ class RouterTest extends CakeTestCase {
 		$this->assertEqual($result->here, '/protected/images/index');
 		$this->assertEqual($result->webroot, '/');
 	}
+
+/**
+ * test setting redirect routes
+ *
+ * @return void
+ */
+	function testRouteRedirection() {
+		Router::redirect('/blog', array('controller' => 'posts'), array('status' => 302));
+		$this->assertEqual(count(Router::$routes), 1);
+		Router::$routes[0]->response = $this->getMock('CakeResponse', array('_sendHeader'));
+		$this->assertEqual(Router::$routes[0]->options['status'], 302);
+
+		Router::parse('/blog');
+		$this->assertEqual(Router::$routes[0]->response->header(), array('Location' => Router::url('/posts', true)));
+		$this->assertEqual(Router::$routes[0]->response->statusCode(), 302);
+
+		Router::$routes[0]->response = $this->getMock('CakeResponse', array('_sendHeader'));
+		Router::parse('/not-a-match');
+		$this->assertEqual(Router::$routes[0]->response->header(), array());
+	}
 }