Index: django/contrib/auth/views.py
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--- django/contrib/auth/views.py	(revision 12454)
+++ django/contrib/auth/views.py	(working copy)
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@
 from django.contrib.auth.models import User
 from django.views.decorators.cache import never_cache
 
+import re
+
 @csrf_protect
 @never_cache
 def login(request, template_name='registration/login.html',
@@ -25,8 +27,12 @@
     if request.method == "POST":
         form = authentication_form(data=request.POST)
         if form.is_valid():
+            not_secure = re.compile(r'[^\?]*//') # URLs in redirect_to should
+                                                 # be passed as GET parameters
             # Light security check -- make sure redirect_to isn't garbage.
-            if not redirect_to or '//' in redirect_to or ' ' in redirect_to:
+            if not redirect_to \
+                or ('//' in redirect_to and not_secure.match(redirect_to)) \
+                or ' ' in redirect_to:
                 redirect_to = settings.LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL
             from django.contrib.auth import login
             login(request, form.get_user())
Index: django/contrib/auth/tests/views.py
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--- django/contrib/auth/tests/views.py	(revision 12454)
+++ django/contrib/auth/tests/views.py	(working copy)
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 import re
 
 from django.conf import settings
-from django.contrib.auth import SESSION_KEY
+from django.contrib.auth import SESSION_KEY, REDIRECT_FIELD_NAME
 from django.contrib.auth.forms import AuthenticationForm
 from django.contrib.sites.models import Site, RequestSite
 from django.contrib.auth.models import User
@@ -183,6 +183,47 @@
         self.assertEquals(response.context['site_name'], site.name)
         self.assert_(isinstance(response.context['form'], AuthenticationForm), 
                      'Login form is not an AuthenticationForm')
+
+    def test_security_check(self, password='password'):
+        import urllib
+        login_url = reverse('django.contrib.auth.views.login')
+
+        # Those URLs should not pass the security check
+        for bad_url in ('http://example.com',
+                        'https://example.com',
+                        'ftp://exampel.com',
+                        '//example.com'):
+
+            nasty_url = '%(url)s?%(next)s=%(bad_url)s' % {
+                'url': login_url,
+                'next': REDIRECT_FIELD_NAME,
+                'bad_url': urllib.quote(bad_url)
+            }
+            response = self.client.post(nasty_url, {
+                'username': 'testclient',
+                'password': password,
+                }
+            )
+            self.assertEquals(response.status_code, 302)
+            self.assertFalse(bad_url in response['Location'], "%s should be blocked" % bad_url)
+
+        # Now, these URLs have an other URL as a GET parameter and therefore
+        # should be allowed
+        for url_ in ('http://example.com', 'https://example.com',
+                    'ftp://exampel.com',  '//example.com'):
+            safe_url = '%(url)s?%(next)s=/view/?param=%(safe_param)s' % {
+                'url': login_url,
+                'next': REDIRECT_FIELD_NAME,
+                'safe_param': urllib.quote(url_)
+            }
+            response = self.client.post(safe_url, {
+                    'username': 'testclient',
+                    'password': password,
+                }
+            )
+            self.assertEquals(response.status_code, 302)
+            self.assertTrue('/view/?param=%s' % url_ in response['Location'], "/view/?param=%s should be allowed" % url_)
+
         
 class LogoutTest(AuthViewsTestCase):
     urls = 'django.contrib.auth.tests.urls'