Is there an easy way to request a URL in python and NOT follow redirects?
Here is the Requests way:
import requests
r = requests.get('http://github.com', allow_redirects=False)
print(r.status_code, r.headers['Location'])
Dive Into Python has a good chapter on handling redirects with urllib2. Another solution is httplib.
>>> import httplib
>>> conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("www.bogosoft.com")
>>> conn.request("GET", "")
>>> r1 = conn.getresponse()
>>> print r1.status, r1.reason
301 Moved Permanently
>>> print r1.getheader('Location')
http://www.bogosoft.com/new/location