Zend Http Client : Invalid URI Supplied Error for Urls that redirect

I want to get html of a URL. Basically I am doing this :

$client = new Zend_Http_Client($url);           
$client->setConfig(array('strictredirects' => true, 'timeout'=> 100, 'storeresponse' => true));
$response = $client->request();
$html = $response->getBody();

For some urls that redirect, i am getting the following error

Invalid URI supplied

For example if you consider the following URL:

http://www.hiexpress.com/redirect?path=hd&brandCode=ex&hotelCode=housl&regionCode=1&localeCode=en&cm_mmc=mdpr--GoogleMaps--ex-_-housl

It redirects to another URL. When i try to get the lastResponse, it gives me nothing. HOw do i get the html for this URL?? I tried the config option strictredirects but still its giving the same error. HOw do i solve this??

For some reason Zend Http Client did not work, had to use CURL to get the work done. To get HTML :

$headers = array( "User-Agent:MyAgent/1.0\r\n");
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,  TRUE);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 50);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 10);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 20);
$html = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
echo $html;

To get the Effective Url / redirected url :

$headers = array( "User-Agent:MyAgent/1.0\r\n");
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,  TRUE);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 50);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 10);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 20);
$content = curl_exec($curl);
$redirectedUrl = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_URL);
curl_close($curl);
echo $redirectedUrl;