Stop Laravel's HTTP Client from Following Redirects

Disable HTTP redirects¶

To turn off redirect follows for single requests, use the withoutRedirecting method and chain:

$response = Http::withoutRedirecting()
	->get('http://example.com');

Behind the scenes, this sets the allow_redirects option in Guzzle to false. Laravel wraps Guzzle for its HTTP client, so you'll find many more methods that do the same thing — they just set options on the fly.

Globally disable HTTP redirects¶

If you want to globally disable redirects with Laravel's HTTP client, set this somewhere globally, like your AppServiceProvider, inside the boot method:

public function boot(): void
{
    Http::globalOptions([
        'allow_redirects' => false,
    ]);
}

Once again, this sets the Guzzle allow_redirects option to false, but for all requests.