From c8d8b4b513986ef415cdfbcf0fc6006bcd5492d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Jacek=20Ko=C5=82odziej?= <kolodziejj@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2019 21:27:18 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Document that `request.head` defaults `allow_redirects` to
 `False`

Related: kennethreitz/requests#4274
---
 requests/api.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/requests/api.py b/requests/api.py
index ef71d075..1ed6d861 100644
--- a/requests/api.py
+++ b/requests/api.py
@@ -92,7 +92,9 @@ def head(url, **kwargs):
     r"""Sends a HEAD request.
 
     :param url: URL for the new :class:`Request` object.
-    :param \*\*kwargs: Optional arguments that ``request`` takes.
+    :param \*\*kwargs: Optional arguments that ``request`` takes. If
+        `allow_redirects` is not provided, it will be set to `False` (as
+        opposed to the default :meth:`request` behavior).
     :return: :class:`Response <Response>` object
     :rtype: requests.Response
     """