</p><p>Although the <em>curl</em> command handled the redirection transparently, there are two issues here.
The first issue is the redundant request, which doubles the latency of fetching the content of <code>http://edition.cnn.com/politics</code>.
The second issue is that the path of the URL, <em>politics</em> in this case, is sent in clear text.
If there is an attacker who sniffs the communication between your application and <code>edition.cnn.com</code>,
the attacker would know which specific topics of <