HEADs don't follow redirects by default.

diff --git a/requests/sessions.py b/requests/sessions.py
index f9c938f30b30ef0e71bc8275b36feb19c6b4085d..7aafd0ea5d1efaf582add56045c47bbd0c134bc4 100644 (file)
--- a/requests/sessions.py
+++ b/requests/sessions.py
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ class Session(object):
         :param **kwargs: Optional arguments that ``request`` takes.
         """
 
-        kwargs.setdefault('allow_redirects', True)
+        kwargs.setdefault('allow_redirects', False)
         return self.request('head', url, **kwargs)