diff --git a/spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/filter/ForwardedHeaderFilter.java b/spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/filter/ForwardedHeaderFilter.java
index cce050a6cc..1751a699af 100644
--- a/spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/filter/ForwardedHeaderFilter.java
+++ b/spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/filter/ForwardedHeaderFilter.java
@@ -79,6 +79,8 @@ public class ForwardedHeaderFilter extends OncePerRequestFilter {
 
 	private boolean removeOnly;
 
+	private boolean requestOnly;
+
 
 	public ForwardedHeaderFilter() {
 		this.pathHelper = new UrlPathHelper();
@@ -97,6 +99,20 @@ public class ForwardedHeaderFilter extends OncePerRequestFilter {
 		this.removeOnly = removeOnly;
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Enables mode in which only the HttpServletRequest is modified. This means that
+	 * {@link HttpServletResponse#sendRedirect(String)} will only work when the application is configured to use
+	 * relative redirects. This can be done with Servlet Container specific setup. For example,  using Tomcat's
+	 * <a href="https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/config/context.html#Common_Attributes">useRelativeRedirects</a>
+	 * attribute.
+	 *
+	 * @param requestOnly whether to customize the {@code HttpServletResponse} or not. Default is false (customize the
+	 * {@code HttpServletResponse})
+	 * @since 4.3.10
+	 */
+	public void setRequestOnly(boolean requestOnly) {
+		this.requestOnly = requestOnly;
+	}
 
 	@Override
 	protected boolean shouldNotFilter(HttpServletRequest request) throws ServletException {
@@ -130,7 +146,8 @@ public class ForwardedHeaderFilter extends OncePerRequestFilter {
 		}
 		else {
 			HttpServletRequest theRequest = new ForwardedHeaderExtractingRequest(request, this.pathHelper);
-			HttpServletResponse theResponse = new ForwardedHeaderExtractingResponse(response, theRequest);
+			HttpServletResponse theResponse = this.requestOnly ? response :
+					new ForwardedHeaderExtractingResponse(response, theRequest);
 			filterChain.doFilter(theRequest, theResponse);
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/spring-web/src/test/java/org/springframework/web/filter/ForwardedHeaderFilterTests.java b/spring-web/src/test/java/org/springframework/web/filter/ForwardedHeaderFilterTests.java
index 2af2f108e3..fc23caa993 100644
--- a/spring-web/src/test/java/org/springframework/web/filter/ForwardedHeaderFilterTests.java
+++ b/spring-web/src/test/java/org/springframework/web/filter/ForwardedHeaderFilterTests.java
@@ -403,6 +403,26 @@ public class ForwardedHeaderFilterTests {
 		assertEquals("../foo/bar", redirectedUrl);
 	}
 
+	@Test
+	public void sendRedirectWhenRequestOnlyAndXForwardedThenUsesRelativeRedirects() throws Exception {
+		this.request.addHeader(X_FORWARDED_PROTO, "https");
+		this.request.addHeader(X_FORWARDED_HOST, "example.com");
+		this.request.addHeader(X_FORWARDED_PORT, "443");
+		this.filter.setRequestOnly(true);
+
+		String location = sendRedirect("/a");
+
+		assertEquals("/a", location);
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void sendRedirectWhenRequestOnlyAndNoXForwardedThenUsesRelativeRedirects() throws Exception {
+		this.filter.setRequestOnly(true);
+
+		String location = sendRedirect("/a");
+
+		assertEquals("/a", location);
+	}
 
 	private String sendRedirect(final String location) throws ServletException, IOException {
 		MockHttpServletResponse response = doWithFiltersAndGetResponse(this.filter, new OncePerRequestFilter() {