wget: don't follow redirects
--max-redirect 0
I haven't tried this, it will either allow none or allow infinite..
Use curl without -L instead of wget. Omitting that option when using curl prevents the redirect from being followed.
If you use curl -I <URL> then you'll get the headers instead of the redirect HTML.
If you use curl -IL <URL> then you'll get the headers for the URL, plus those for the URL you're redirected to.
Some versions of wget have a --max-redirect option: See here