urllib3 does support redirections. Pic8 has been a little slow recently due to a bug, and because it doesn't host images but only host links it redirects too, it's normal that it takes a little more time. I'm checking a direct link to catbox.moe and it gives me the same answer. I can get the right 'width & height', but the size is still stuck at 31 bytes (the range/size of the headers). I'll check that later. Got something else to do now. Thanks for the curl suggestion.