What a Bit.ly-style redirect looks like as a wp_remote_get response.

bitly-response.php

<?php

# via var_dump(wp_remote_get('http://nzzl.me/1xqgPpn',array('redirection' => 0)));

array(5) {
  ["headers"]=>
  array(9) {
    ["server"]=>
    string(5) "nginx"
    ["date"]=>
    string(29) "Tue, 03 Feb 2015 22:34:52 GMT"
    ["content-type"]=>
    string(24) "text/html; charset=utf-8"
    ["content-length"]=>
    string(3) "147"
    ["connection"]=>
    string(5) "close"
    ["cache-control"]=>
    string(19) "private, max-age=90"
    ["location"]=>
    string(55) "http://www.vox.com/2015/1/3/7482623/emerson-spartz-dose"
    ["mime-version"]=>
    string(3) "1.0"
    ["set-cookie"]=>
    string(100) "_bit=54d14d0c-0018d-06e9b-301cf10a;domain=.nzzl.me;expires=Sun Aug  2 22:34:52 2015;path=/; HttpOnly"
  }
  ["body"]=>
  string(147) "




moved here

"
  ["response"]=>
  array(2) {
    ["code"]=>
    int(301)
    ["message"]=>
    string(17) "Moved Permanently"
  }
  ["cookies"]=>
  array(1) {
    [0]=>
    object(WP_Http_Cookie)#344 (6) {
      ["name"]=>
      string(4) "_bit"
      ["value"]=>
      string(29) "54d14d0c-0018d-06e9b-301cf10a"
      ["expires"]=>
      int(1438554892)
      ["path"]=>
      string(1) "/"
      ["domain"]=>
      string(8) ".nzzl.me"
      ["httponly"]=>
      string(0) ""
    }
  }
  ["filename"]=>
  NULL
}