f you are just trying to redirect to an absolute URL stored in Redis, your code should work provided the string is clean.

A robust way to ensure it's treated as a simple URL might involve using Django's HttpResponseRedirect directly instead of the redirect shortcut:

django_code/website_redirection/apps.py

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import redis
 from django.http import HttpResponse
+from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect
 from django.shortcuts import render
-from django.shortcuts import redirect
 
 r = redis.Redis(
     host='django-redis-svc',
@@ -36,6 +36,6 @@ def display_key(request,key):
 def redirect_to_key(request,key):
     value = r.get(key)
     print(value)
-    value_extracted = str(value.decode())
+    value_extracted = str(value.decode('utf-8'))
     print(value_extracted)
-    return redirect(str(value_extracted))
+    return HttpResponseRedirect(value_extracted)