301 redirect to an external site [Solved]

[eluser]danmontgomery[/eluser]
[quote author="ajitabhpandey" date="1282154229"]@noctrum, as per the docs the redirect() function in CI is for internal redirection only.[/quote]

And if you try it, you'll see that it works normally if you provide an external url.

Code:

$this->load->helper('url');
redirect('http://www.google.com', 'location', 301);