From 35df2583bfe58fa87458bf8b6729e6608d8fa42f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard O'Dwyer <richard@richard.do>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 20:07:38 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix title_exists

---
 HISTORY.rst            | 2 ++
 src/imdbpie/imdbpie.py | 8 ++++----
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index 7c7499e..631b8f6 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ Release History
 ++++++++++++++++++
 
 - Python 2.x setup.py bugfix.
+- Bugfix for ``title_exists`` method returning ``None``.
+- Bugfix for ``get_title`` raising an incorrect exception when redirection title.
 
 
 5.4.3 (2018-04-05)
diff --git a/src/imdbpie/imdbpie.py b/src/imdbpie/imdbpie.py
index b4b661b..1ec68ba 100644
--- a/src/imdbpie/imdbpie.py
+++ b/src/imdbpie/imdbpie.py
@@ -103,9 +103,9 @@ class Imdb(Auth):
 
     def title_exists(self, imdb_id):
         self.validate_imdb_id(imdb_id)
-        page_url = 'http://www.imdb.com/title/{0}/'.format(imdb_id)
+        page_url = 'https://www.imdb.com/title/{0}/'.format(imdb_id)
 
-        response = self.session.head(page_url)
+        response = self.session.get(page_url, allow_redirects=False)
 
         if response.status_code == httplib.OK:
             return True
@@ -298,8 +298,8 @@ class Imdb(Auth):
 
     def is_redirection_title(self, imdb_id):
         self.validate_imdb_id(imdb_id)
-        page_url = 'http://www.imdb.com/title/{0}/'.format(imdb_id)
-        response = self.session.head(page_url)
+        page_url = 'https://www.imdb.com/title/{0}/'.format(imdb_id)
+        response = self.session.get(page_url, allow_redirects=False)
         if response.status_code == httplib.MOVED_PERMANENTLY:
             return True
         else:
-- 
2.24.1