Works fine here. Are you using POE::Component::Client::HTTP 0.84?
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: private
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:16:07 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
Content-Length: 498
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Redirect to news site</TITLE>
<link href="StyleSheets.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" Content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252">
</HEAD>
<BODY>
Loading . . .
<Script Language="JavaScript">
top.location="http://news.tabonline.co.za/"
</script>
</BODY>
</HTML>