diff --git a/requests/adapters.py b/requests/adapters.py
index 12d23b01..eb7a2d28 100644
--- a/requests/adapters.py
+++ b/requests/adapters.py
@@ -385,9 +385,4 @@ class HTTPAdapter(BaseAdapter):
             else:
                 raise
 
-        r = self.build_response(request, resp)
-
-        if not stream:
-            r.content
-
-        return r
+        return self.build_response(request, resp)
diff --git a/requests/sessions.py b/requests/sessions.py
index 6b21b5df..df85a25c 100644
--- a/requests/sessions.py
+++ b/requests/sessions.py
@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@ from .cookies import (
 from .models import Request, PreparedRequest, DEFAULT_REDIRECT_LIMIT
 from .hooks import default_hooks, dispatch_hook
 from .utils import to_key_val_list, default_headers, to_native_string
-from .exceptions import TooManyRedirects, InvalidSchema
+from .exceptions import (
+    TooManyRedirects, InvalidSchema, ChunkedEncodingError, ContentDecodingError)
 from .structures import CaseInsensitiveDict
 
 from .adapters import HTTPAdapter
@@ -94,7 +95,10 @@ class SessionRedirectMixin(object):
         while resp.is_redirect:
             prepared_request = req.copy()
 
-            resp.content  # Consume socket so it can be released
+            try:
+                resp.content  # Consume socket so it can be released
+            except (ChunkedEncodingError, ContentDecodingError, RuntimeError):
+                resp.raw.read(decode_content=False)
 
             if i >= self.max_redirects:
                 raise TooManyRedirects('Exceeded %s redirects.' % self.max_redirects)
@@ -588,6 +592,9 @@ class Session(SessionRedirectMixin):
             r = history.pop()
             r.history = history
 
+        if not stream:
+            r.content
+
         return r
 
     def get_adapter(self, url):
diff --git a/test_requests.py b/test_requests.py
index a1df1f19..a92b22c6 100755
--- a/test_requests.py
+++ b/test_requests.py
@@ -917,6 +917,45 @@ class RequestsTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
 
         assert h1 == h2
 
+    def test_manual_redirect_with_partial_body_read(self):
+        s = requests.Session()
+        r1 = s.get(httpbin('redirect/2'), allow_redirects=False, stream=True)
+        assert r1.is_redirect
+        rg = s.resolve_redirects(r1, r1.request, stream=True)
+
+        # read only the first eight bytes of the response body,
+        # then follow the redirect
+        r1.iter_content(8)
+        r2 = next(rg)
+        assert r2.is_redirect
+
+        # read all of the response via iter_content,
+        # then follow the redirect
+        for _ in r2.iter_content():
+            pass
+        r3 = next(rg)
+        assert not r3.is_redirect
+
+    def _patch_adapter_gzipped_redirect(self, session, url):
+        adapter = session.get_adapter(url=url)
+        org_build_response = adapter.build_response
+        self._patched_response = False
+
+        def build_response(*args, **kwargs):
+            resp = org_build_response(*args, **kwargs)
+            if not self._patched_response:
+                resp.raw.headers['content-encoding'] = 'gzip'
+                self._patched_response = True
+            return resp
+
+        adapter.build_response = build_response
+
+    def test_redirect_with_wrong_gzipped_header(self):
+        s = requests.Session()
+        url = httpbin('redirect/1')
+        self._patch_adapter_gzipped_redirect(s, url)
+        s.get(url)
+
 
 class TestContentEncodingDetection(unittest.TestCase):
 
@@ -1321,7 +1360,7 @@ def test_data_argument_accepts_tuples(list_of_tuples):
             hooks=default_hooks()
         )
         assert p.body == urlencode(data)
-        
+
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     unittest.main()