diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index b6a12b32ee5b7b01fc49ddda9f0ac280eaf0cac1..41a09cac7af072e99b096a7c81d65af43c91c5dd 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -1071,11 +1071,6 @@ GIT_ICASE_PATHSPECS::
 
 	  - any external helpers are named by their protocol (e.g., use
 	    `hg` to allow the `git-remote-hg` helper)
-+
-Note that this controls only git's internal protocol selection.
-If libcurl is used (e.g., by the `http` transport), it may
-redirect to other protocols. There is not currently any way to
-restrict this.
 
 
 Discussion[[Discussion]]
diff --git a/http.c b/http.c
index 67986200655f88f5545e3df3669c2f4bbe688247..5a57bccea9e762e144a0694128caa7eb45ab4b4d 100644
--- a/http.c
+++ b/http.c
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 #include "credential.h"
 #include "version.h"
 #include "pkt-line.h"
+#include "transport.h"
 
 int active_requests;
 int http_is_verbose;
@@ -303,6 +304,7 @@ static void set_curl_keepalive(CURL *c)
 static CURL *get_curl_handle(void)
 {
 	CURL *result = curl_easy_init();
+	long allowed_protocols = 0;
 
 	if (!result)
 		die("curl_easy_init failed");
@@ -355,6 +357,21 @@ static CURL *get_curl_handle(void)
 #elif LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM >= 0x071101
 	curl_easy_setopt(result, CURLOPT_POST301, 1);
 #endif
+#if LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM >= 0x071304
+	if (is_transport_allowed("http"))
+		allowed_protocols |= CURLPROTO_HTTP;
+	if (is_transport_allowed("https"))
+		allowed_protocols |= CURLPROTO_HTTPS;
+	if (is_transport_allowed("ftp"))
+		allowed_protocols |= CURLPROTO_FTP;
+	if (is_transport_allowed("ftps"))
+		allowed_protocols |= CURLPROTO_FTPS;
+	curl_easy_setopt(result, CURLOPT_REDIR_PROTOCOLS, allowed_protocols);
+#else
+	if (transport_restrict_protocols())
+		warning("protocol restrictions not applied to curl redirects because\n"
+			"your curl version is too old (>= 7.19.4)");
+#endif
 
 	if (getenv("GIT_CURL_VERBOSE"))
 		curl_easy_setopt(result, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
diff --git a/t/lib-httpd/apache.conf b/t/lib-httpd/apache.conf
index 0b81a0047b8d9cd60266500907e95ddc5b87742c..68ef8adb8e2b6cded72c5ddbdcdac633e5ee2261 100644
--- a/t/lib-httpd/apache.conf
+++ b/t/lib-httpd/apache.conf
@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ RewriteRule ^/smart-redir-perm/(.*)$ /smart/$1 [R=301]
 RewriteRule ^/smart-redir-temp/(.*)$ /smart/$1 [R=302]
 RewriteRule ^/smart-redir-auth/(.*)$ /auth/smart/$1 [R=301]
 RewriteRule ^/smart-redir-limited/(.*)/info/refs$ /smart/$1/info/refs [R=301]
+RewriteRule ^/ftp-redir/(.*)$ ftp://localhost:1000/$1 [R=302]
 
 <IfDefine SSL>
 LoadModule ssl_module modules/mod_ssl.so
diff --git a/t/t5812-proto-disable-http.sh b/t/t5812-proto-disable-http.sh
index dd5001cbac8a0a66a3235e9e6c83a62bc1ab595f..6a4f81662d816eb1392ce48dda11911a54759565 100755
--- a/t/t5812-proto-disable-http.sh
+++ b/t/t5812-proto-disable-http.sh
@@ -16,5 +16,14 @@ test_expect_success 'create git-accessible repo' '
 
 test_proto "smart http" http "$HTTPD_URL/smart/repo.git"
 
+test_expect_success 'curl redirects respect whitelist' '
+	test_must_fail env GIT_ALLOW_PROTOCOL=http:https \
+		git clone "$HTTPD_URL/ftp-redir/repo.git" 2>stderr &&
+	{
+		test_i18ngrep "ftp.*disabled" stderr ||
+		test_i18ngrep "your curl version is too old"
+	}
+'
+
 stop_httpd
 test_done