Possible to force external redirects to be followed?

[Carl Youngblood]

I see that external redirects are no longer followed by default:

http://github.com/brynary/webrat/commit/9825aee47efa7c3ef438db5ce10f410d3f8938c8

Is there a way that I can override this behavior? Google redirects
traffic to its country-specific websites based on the IP you're
browsing from. I'd like to have webrat follow these redirects.

Thanks,
Carl