diff --git a/scrapy/tests/test_utils_response.py b/scrapy/tests/test_utils_response.py
index 9e75a7c7f..8fe944ae2 100644
--- a/scrapy/tests/test_utils_response.py
+++ b/scrapy/tests/test_utils_response.py
@@ -69,8 +69,17 @@ class ResponseUtilsTest(unittest.TestCase):
         </noSCRIPT>
         <body>blahablsdfsal&amp;</body>
         </html>""")
+        r3 = HtmlResponse("http://www.example.com", body="""
+    <noscript><meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;url=http://www.example.com/newpage</noscript>
+    <script type="text/javascript">
+    if(!checkCookies()){
+        document.write('<meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;url=http://www.example.com/newpage">');
+    }
+    </script>
+        """)
         self.assertEqual(get_meta_refresh(r1), (5.0, 'http://example.org/newpage'))
         self.assertEqual(get_meta_refresh(r2), (None, None))
+        self.assertEqual(get_meta_refresh(r3), (None, None))
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()
diff --git a/scrapy/utils/response.py b/scrapy/utils/response.py
index daa3a62bc..e3098a300 100644
--- a/scrapy/utils/response.py
+++ b/scrapy/utils/response.py
@@ -35,12 +35,14 @@ def get_base_url(response):
     return _baseurl_cache[response]
 
 _noscript_re = re.compile(u'<noscript>.*?</noscript>', re.IGNORECASE | re.DOTALL)
+_script_re = re.compile(u'<script.*?>.*?</script>', re.IGNORECASE | re.DOTALL)
 _metaref_cache = weakref.WeakKeyDictionary()
 def get_meta_refresh(response):
     """Parse the http-equiv refrsh parameter from the given response"""
     if response not in _metaref_cache:
         text = response.body_as_unicode()[0:4096]
         text = _noscript_re.sub(u'', text)
+        text = _script_re.sub(u'', text)
         _metaref_cache[response] = html.get_meta_refresh(text, response.url, \
             response.encoding)
     return _metaref_cache[response]
