kennethreitz/requests — pull request #501 by johtso (2012-03-20 14:34:59+00:00)
Title: Make HEAD requests follow redirects by default

[The docs](http://docs.python-requests.org/en/v0.10.7/user/quickstart/#redirection-and-history) imply that GET, HEAD and OPTION should all default to following redirects, but currently `allow_redirects` defaults to False for HEAD requests.