powershell curl and WebRequest both follow redirects
It is because .NET and PowerShell are following redirects by default but curl does not do this. The default value of HttpWebRequest.AllowAutoRedirect is true and Invoke-WebRequest's MaximumRedirection default value is 5.
To turn off automatic redirection via WebRequest:
$request = [System.Net.WebRequest]::Create("http://google.com")$request.AllowAutoRedirect = $false$request.GetResponse()or Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet:
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "http://google.com" -MaximumRedirection 0Alternatively, use the -L flag to follow redirects in curl:
curl -L google.com