Can you prevent the "Send web request" action following 303/302 Redirects

[Steve K]

Hi team,

I've setup an automation that makes a web request for a custom value - the request works almost perfectly. The expected behavior is:

1. Send GET web request successfully completes the request.
2. The Web Server provides a Status: 303, and a Header: Location: https://new.url.here/ is returned
3. {{webResponse}} should provide the headers above and {{webResponse.status}} should be 303 and {{webResponse.statusCategory}} should also return REDIRECT

Actual behavior is that web request continues to follow the 303/Location redirect and returns the redirected content and headers.

This is also true when "web request" is set to "HEAD" instead of GET. The backend goes on and follows the redirect - as per the screenshot.

Does anyone have any tips on preventing this? Or how to access the first set of headers instead of the final redirected set?