diff --git a/swh/loader/package/tests/test_utils.py b/swh/loader/package/tests/test_utils.py
--- a/swh/loader/package/tests/test_utils.py
+++ b/swh/loader/package/tests/test_utils.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 import os
 from unittest.mock import MagicMock
 from urllib.error import URLError
+from urllib.parse import quote
 
 import pytest
 
@@ -171,6 +172,99 @@
         download(url, dest=str(tmp_path))
 
 
+@pytest.mark.fs
+def test_download_with_redirection(tmp_path, requests_mock):
+    """Download with redirection should use the targeted URL to extract filename"""
+    url = "https://example.org/project/requests/download"
+    filename = "requests-0.0.1.tar.gz"
+    redirection_url = f"https://example.org/project/requests/files/{filename}"
+    data = "this is something"
+
+    requests_mock.get(url, status_code=302, headers={"location": redirection_url})
+    requests_mock.get(
+        redirection_url, text=data, headers={"content-length": str(len(data))}
+    )
+
+    actual_filepath, actual_hashes = download(url, dest=str(tmp_path))
+
+    actual_filename = os.path.basename(actual_filepath)
+    assert actual_filename == filename
+    assert actual_hashes["length"] == len(data)
+    assert (
+        actual_hashes["checksums"]["sha1"] == "fdd1ce606a904b08c816ba84f3125f2af44d92b2"
+    )  # noqa
+    assert (
+        actual_hashes["checksums"]["sha256"]
+        == "1d9224378d77925d612c9f926eb9fb92850e6551def8328011b6a972323298d5"
+    )
+
+
+@pytest.mark.fs
+def test_download_filename_from_content_disposition(tmp_path, requests_mock):
+    """Filename should be extracted from content-disposition request header
+    when available."""
+    url = "https://example.org/download/requests/tar.gz/v0.0.1"
+    filename = "requests-0.0.1.tar.gz"
+
+    data = "this is something"
+
+    for fname in (f'"{filename}"', filename, '"filename with spaces.tar.gz"'):
+        requests_mock.get(
+            url,
+            text=data,
+            headers={
+                "content-length": str(len(data)),
+                "content-disposition": f"attachment; filename={fname}",
+            },
+        )
+
+        actual_filepath, actual_hashes = download(url, dest=str(tmp_path))
+
+        actual_filename = os.path.basename(actual_filepath)
+        assert actual_filename == fname.strip('"')
+        assert actual_hashes["length"] == len(data)
+        assert (
+            actual_hashes["checksums"]["sha1"]
+            == "fdd1ce606a904b08c816ba84f3125f2af44d92b2"
+        )  # noqa
+        assert (
+            actual_hashes["checksums"]["sha256"]
+            == "1d9224378d77925d612c9f926eb9fb92850e6551def8328011b6a972323298d5"
+        )
+
+
+@pytest.mark.fs
+def test_download_utf8_filename_from_content_disposition(tmp_path, requests_mock):
+    """Filename should be extracted from content-disposition request header
+    when available."""
+    url = "https://example.org/download/requests/tar.gz/v0.0.1"
+    data = "this is something"
+
+    for fname in ('"archive école.tar.gz"', "archive_école.tgz"):
+        requests_mock.get(
+            url,
+            text=data,
+            headers={
+                "content-length": str(len(data)),
+                "content-disposition": f"attachment; filename*=utf-8''{quote(fname)}",
+            },
+        )
+
+        actual_filepath, actual_hashes = download(url, dest=str(tmp_path))
+
+        actual_filename = os.path.basename(actual_filepath)
+        assert actual_filename == fname.strip('"')
+        assert actual_hashes["length"] == len(data)
+        assert (
+            actual_hashes["checksums"]["sha1"]
+            == "fdd1ce606a904b08c816ba84f3125f2af44d92b2"
+        )  # noqa
+        assert (
+            actual_hashes["checksums"]["sha256"]
+            == "1d9224378d77925d612c9f926eb9fb92850e6551def8328011b6a972323298d5"
+        )
+
+
 def test_api_info_failure(requests_mock):
     """Failure to fetch info/release information should raise"""
     url = "https://pypi.org/pypi/requests/json"
diff --git a/swh/loader/package/utils.py b/swh/loader/package/utils.py
--- a/swh/loader/package/utils.py
+++ b/swh/loader/package/utils.py
@@ -8,7 +8,9 @@
 import itertools
 import logging
 import os
+import re
 from typing import Callable, Dict, Optional, Tuple, TypeVar
+from urllib.parse import unquote
 from urllib.request import urlopen
 
 import requests
@@ -47,6 +49,20 @@
     return response.content
 
 
+def _content_disposition_filename(header: str) -> Optional[str]:
+    fname = None
+    fnames = re.findall(r"filename[\*]?=([^;]+)", header)
+    if fnames and "utf-8''" in fnames[0].lower():
+        #  RFC 5987
+        fname = re.sub("utf-8''", "", fnames[0], flags=re.IGNORECASE)
+        fname = unquote(fname)
+    elif fnames:
+        fname = fnames[0]
+    if fname:
+        fname = os.path.basename(fname.strip().strip('"'))
+    return fname
+
+
 def download(
     url: str,
     dest: str,
@@ -92,6 +108,14 @@
             raise ValueError(
                 "Fail to query '%s'. Reason: %s" % (url, response.status_code)
             )
+        # update URL to response one as requests follow redirection by default
+        # on GET requests
+        url = response.url
+        # try to extract filename from content-disposition header if available
+        if filename is None and "content-disposition" in response.headers:
+            filename = _content_disposition_filename(
+                response.headers["content-disposition"]
+            )
         response_data = response.iter_content(chunk_size=HASH_BLOCK_SIZE)
 
     filename = filename if filename else os.path.basename(url)