diff --git a/examples/Makefile.am b/examples/Makefile.am
index 64de6819..7c8d6bf6 100644
--- a/examples/Makefile.am
+++ b/examples/Makefile.am
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 noinst_PROGRAMS = \
+ batch_loader\
  getstream\
  http_get2\
  http_multi_get\
diff --git a/examples/batch_loader.c b/examples/batch_loader.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6e020af6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/batch_loader.c
@@ -0,0 +1,256 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright(c) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ *
+ * This file is part of libwget.
+ *
+ * Libwget is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * Libwget is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+ * along with libwget.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ *
+ *
+ * Read URLs from stdin and download into results/domain/.
+ *
+ */
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+#ifndef _WIN32
+#	include <signal.h>
+#endif
+#include <wget.h>
+
+typedef struct {
+	int
+		http_links, https_links,
+		status,
+		redirs,
+		redir_insecure,
+		landed_on_https;
+	char
+		host[256],
+		content_type[128];
+} stats_t;
+
+#define MAXTHREADS 500
+
+static void *downloader_thread(void *p);
+
+static void write_stats(const stats_t *stats)
+{
+	FILE *fp;
+
+	if ((fp = fopen("out.csv", "a"))) {
+		fprintf(fp, "%s,%d,%d,%d,%d,%s\n",
+			stats->host, stats->status, stats->redir_insecure, stats->redirs, stats->landed_on_https,
+			stats->content_type);
+		fclose(fp);
+	}
+}
+
+/*
+ * helper function: percent-unescape, convert to utf-8, create URL string using base
+ */
+static int _normalize_uri(wget_iri_t *base, wget_string_t *url, const char *encoding, wget_buffer_t *buf)
+{
+	char *urlpart_encoded;
+	size_t urlpart_encoded_length;
+	int rc;
+
+	if (url->len == 0 || (url->len >= 1 && *url->p == '#')) // ignore e.g. href='#'
+		return -1;
+
+	char *urlpart = wget_strmemdup(url->p, url->len);
+
+	wget_iri_unescape_url_inline(urlpart);
+	rc = wget_memiconv(encoding, urlpart, strlen(urlpart), "utf-8", &urlpart_encoded, &urlpart_encoded_length);
+	wget_xfree(urlpart);
+
+	if (rc)
+		return -2;
+
+	rc = !wget_iri_relative_to_abs(base, urlpart_encoded, urlpart_encoded_length, buf);
+	wget_xfree(urlpart_encoded);
+
+	if (rc)
+		return -3;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static char *_normalize_location(const char *base, const char *url)
+{
+	wget_buffer_t buf;
+	wget_string_t url_s = { .p = url, .len = strlen(url) };
+	wget_iri_t *base_iri = wget_iri_parse(base, "utf-8");
+	char sbuf[1024], *norm_url = NULL;
+	int rc;
+
+	if (!base_iri)
+		return NULL;
+
+	wget_buffer_init(&buf, sbuf, sizeof(sbuf));
+	if ((rc = _normalize_uri(base_iri, &url_s, "utf-8", &buf)) == 0) {
+		norm_url = wget_strmemdup(buf.data, buf.length);
+	}
+	wget_buffer_deinit(&buf);
+
+	wget_iri_free(&base_iri);
+
+	return norm_url;
+}
+
+int main(int argc G_GNUC_WGET_UNUSED, const char *const *argv G_GNUC_WGET_UNUSED)
+{
+	static wget_thread_t downloaders[MAXTHREADS];
+
+	// set up libwget global configuration
+	wget_global_init(
+//		WGET_DEBUG_STREAM, stderr,
+		WGET_ERROR_STREAM, stdout,
+		WGET_INFO_STREAM, stdout,
+		WGET_DNS_CACHING, 0,
+		0);
+
+#ifndef _WIN32
+	struct sigaction sig_action;
+	memset(&sig_action, 0, sizeof(sig_action));
+	sig_action.sa_sigaction = (void (*)(int, siginfo_t *, void *))SIG_IGN;
+	sigaction(SIGPIPE, &sig_action, NULL); // this forces socket error return
+#endif
+
+	// set global timeouts to 5s
+	wget_tcp_set_timeout(NULL, 3000);
+	wget_tcp_set_connect_timeout(NULL, 3000);
+	wget_tcp_set_dns_timeout(NULL, 3000);
+
+	// OCSP off
+	wget_ssl_set_config_int(WGET_SSL_OCSP, 0);
+	wget_ssl_set_config_int(WGET_SSL_OCSP_STAPLING, 0);
+
+	// don't check cert and SNI
+	wget_ssl_set_config_int(WGET_SSL_CHECK_CERTIFICATE, 0);
+	wget_ssl_set_config_int(WGET_SSL_CHECK_HOSTNAME, 0);
+
+	// start threads
+	for (int rc, it = 0; it < MAXTHREADS; it++) {
+		if ((rc = wget_thread_start(&downloaders[it], downloader_thread, NULL, 0)) != 0) {
+			wget_error_printf("Failed to start thread, error %d\n", rc);
+		}
+	}
+
+	// wait until threads are done
+	for (int rc, it = 0; it < MAXTHREADS; it++) {
+		if ((rc = wget_thread_join(&downloaders[it])) != 0)
+			wget_error_printf("Failed to wait for downloader #%d (%d %d)\n", it, rc, errno);
+	}
+
+	// free resources - needed for valgrind testing
+	wget_global_deinit();
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static void *downloader_thread(G_GNUC_WGET_UNUSED void *p)
+{
+	stats_t stats;
+	wget_http_response_t *resp = NULL;
+	char *url = NULL;
+
+	while (fscanf(stdin, "%255s", stats.host) == 1) {
+		wget_xfree(url);
+
+		if (!wget_strncasecmp_ascii(stats.host, "http://", 7))
+			url = wget_strdup(stats.host);
+		else if (!wget_strncasecmp_ascii(stats.host, "https://", 8))
+			url = wget_strdup(stats.host);
+		else
+			url = wget_aprintf("http://%s", stats.host);
+
+		stats.http_links = stats. https_links = 0;
+		stats.status = -1;
+		stats.redirs = stats.redir_insecure = stats.landed_on_https = 0;
+		*stats.content_type = 0;
+
+		// follow up to max 5 redirections, stop if one is plain text
+		for (int redirs = 0, max = 5; redirs < max; redirs++) {
+
+			wget_http_free_response(&resp);
+//			wget_http_close(&conn);
+
+			wget_info_printf("%s%s\n", redirs ? "  -> " : "", url);
+
+			// execute an HTTP GET request and return the response
+			resp = wget_http_get(
+				WGET_HTTP_URL, url,
+				WGET_HTTP_HEADER_ADD, "User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0",
+				WGET_HTTP_HEADER_ADD, "Accept-Encoding", "gzip, br",
+				WGET_HTTP_HEADER_ADD, "Accept", "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8", /* some sites need this */
+				WGET_HTTP_HEADER_ADD, "Accept-Encoding", "gzip, br",
+//				WGET_HTTP_HEADER_ADD, "Upgrade-Insecure-Requests", "1",
+				WGET_HTTP_MAX_REDIRECTIONS, 0,
+//				WGET_HTTP_CONNECTION_PTR, &conn,
+				0);
+
+			if (!resp) {
+				wget_info_printf("  No connection / response\n");
+				break;
+			}
+
+			snprintf(stats.content_type, sizeof(stats.content_type), "%s", resp->content_type);
+
+			stats.status = resp->code;
+			if (resp->code != 200) {
+				if (resp->location) {
+					stats.redirs++;
+
+					wget_info_printf("  Response code %hd, %s\n", resp->code, resp->location);
+
+					char *newurl = _normalize_location(url, resp->location);
+					if (!newurl) {
+						wget_info_printf("  Failed to normalize '%s', '%s'\n", url, resp->location);
+						break;
+					}
+					wget_xfree(url);
+					url = newurl;
+
+					if (wget_strncasecmp(url, "https://", 8))
+						stats.redir_insecure++;
+
+					continue;
+				}
+
+				wget_info_printf("  Response code %hd\n", resp->code);
+				break;
+			}
+
+			if (wget_strncasecmp(url, "https://", 8))
+				break; // no need to parse, we landed on HTTP
+
+			stats.landed_on_https = 1;
+
+			break;
+		}
+
+		// free the response
+		wget_http_free_response(&resp);
+
+		// close connection if still open
+//		wget_http_close(&conn);
+
+		write_stats(&stats);
+	}
+
+	wget_xfree(url);
+
+	return NULL;
+}