Comment 4 for bug 1181216

That would allow autopilot to enter the URL in the browser. However, there's a check later to make sure that the address is equal to the one that was entered that wouldn't pass.

This check would fail in this case anyway because there's a redirection to http://edition.cnn.com, so the check is actually too strict. I think that the best workaround would be to provide both the url to type and the expected url after any redirection.