QNetworkReply Location header retrieval can't handle Network-Path Reference URI

I am using QNetworkReply and grabbing the Location header for redirects like this:

	// redirection
	const QVariant location = reply->header(QNetworkRequest::LocationHeader);
	QString redirectURL;
	if(location.isValid())
	{
		redirectURL = location.toString();
	}

When the server replies with a Network-Path Reference URI (see http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-4.2), which begins with two slashes, the location header is reported to be invalid and the code does not follow the redirect.

Example Location header:

Location: //addons.cursecdn.com/files/2213\117/appliedenergistics2-rv1-beta-19.jar

The meaning of the // is that the URL is relative to the scheme used for the request.

So, the location IS valid (unlike what Qt reports) and the value reported by Qt should be:

{scheme of the request URL}://addons.cursecdn.com/files/2213\117/appliedenergistics2-rv1-beta-19.jar