kennethreitz/requests — pull request #2104 by rtdean (2014-06-21 00:33:50+00:00)
Title: make requests.request(VERB,...) behave the same as requests.VERB(...)

Currently requests.head() behaves differently (doesn't follow redirects) than requests.request('HEAD', ...)

This is, I believe, undesirable behaviour, and also disagrees with the documentation (http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/quickstart/#redirection-and-history).

This also addresses the problem described in kennethreitz/grequests#45