diff --git a/docs/user/quickstart.rst b/docs/user/quickstart.rst
index cdbba6c9..9039ded3 100644
--- a/docs/user/quickstart.rst
+++ b/docs/user/quickstart.rst
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ handling with the ``disable_redirects`` parameter::
 
 If you're using POST, PUT, PATCH, *&c*, you can also explicitly enable redirection as well::
 
-    >>> r = requests.post('http://github.com')
+    >>> r = requests.post('http://github.com', allow_redirects=True)
     >>> r.url
     'https://github.com/'
     >>> r.history