diff --git a/cypress/e2e/middleware/standard.cy.ts b/cypress/e2e/middleware/standard.cy.ts
index 4992e0186c..79d9630532 100644
--- a/cypress/e2e/middleware/standard.cy.ts
+++ b/cypress/e2e/middleware/standard.cy.ts
@@ -24,6 +24,13 @@ describe('Standard middleware', () => {
     cy.url().should('eq', `${Cypress.config().baseUrl}/shows/rewrite-external`)
   })
 
+  it('doesnt follow redirects from rewritten page', () => {
+    cy.request({ url: '/rewrite-to-redirect', followRedirect: false }).then((response) => {
+      expect(response.status).to.eq(302)
+      expect(response.redirectedToUrl).to.eq('https://example.com/')
+    })
+  })
+
   it('adds headers to static pages', () => {
     cy.request('/shows/static/3').then((response) => {
       expect(response.headers).to.have.property('x-middleware-date')
diff --git a/demos/middleware/middleware.ts b/demos/middleware/middleware.ts
index 04f894b042..1b1805ea95 100644
--- a/demos/middleware/middleware.ts
+++ b/demos/middleware/middleware.ts
@@ -38,6 +38,10 @@ export async function middleware(req: NextRequest) {
     return res
   }
 
+  if (pathname.startsWith("/rewrite-to-redirect")) {
+    return NextResponse.rewrite('https://httpbin.org/redirect-to?url=https://example.com') 
+  }
+
   // skipMiddlewareUrlNormalize next config option is used so we have to try to match both html path and data blob path
   if (pathname.startsWith('/request-rewrite') || pathname.endsWith('/request-rewrite.json')) {
     // request.rewrite() should return the MiddlewareResponse object instead of the Response object.
@@ -174,6 +178,7 @@ export const config = {
     '/cookies/:path*',
     { source: '/static' },
     { source: '/request-rewrite' },
+    { source: '/rewrite-to-redirect' },
     { source: '/matcher-cookie' },
     { source: '/shows/((?!99|88).*)' },
     {
diff --git a/packages/runtime/src/templates/edge-shared/utils.ts b/packages/runtime/src/templates/edge-shared/utils.ts
index 70a2752192..7890addaad 100644
--- a/packages/runtime/src/templates/edge-shared/utils.ts
+++ b/packages/runtime/src/templates/edge-shared/utils.ts
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ export const buildResponse = async ({
     }
     if (rewriteUrl.hostname !== baseUrl.hostname) {
       // Netlify Edge Functions don't support proxying to external domains, but Next middleware does
-      const proxied = fetch(new Request(rewriteUrl.toString(), request))
+      const proxied = fetch(new Request(rewriteUrl.toString(), request), { redirect: 'manual' })
       return addMiddlewareHeaders(proxied, res)
     }
     res.headers.set('x-middleware-rewrite', relativeUrl)