redirecting with a dropdown

[thersitz]

Does anyone know of a how-to page that can show me how to store a url in a
table, fill a drop down with that table using the url field as the
DataValueField and have it redirect the user to the url attached to the
given selection? I am able to postback to a page in my site and even a
direct url. I've been googling, but no direct hit.

If I do something like this it succeeds

Response.Redirect("default.aspx")
Response.Redirect("http://www.google.com")

But if I do this it fails

Response.Redirect(DropDownList1.SelectedItem.Value ) -- where value equals a
full url pulled in from the table.

Protected Sub DropDownList1_SelectedIndexChanged(ByVal sender As Object,
ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles DropDownList1.SelectedIndexChanged
Response.Redirect(DropDownList1.SelectedItem.Value )
End Sub

thanks