request-redirect.js

var http = require('http');

var responseHandler = function(response) {
  if (response.headers.location) {
    http.get(response.headers.location, responseHandler);
    
    // If I leave this off, the node process takes ~45 seconds to exit.
    // Presumably it's waiting for a listener to attach to the stream
    response.on('data', function() {});
  } else {
    response.pipe(process.stdout);
  }
};

http.get(process.argv[2], responseHandler);