HTTP client in Go that doesn't follow redirects

noredirect.go

package main

import (
    "errors"
    "fmt"
    "net/http"
)

var noRedirect = errors.New("no redirect")

func noRedirectPolicy(req *http.Request, via []*http.Request) error {
    return noRedirect
}

func main() {
    client := &http.Client{CheckRedirect: noRedirectPolicy}

    // This should have a final slash, nytimes.com will tell us
    resp, _ := client.Get("http://www.nytimes.com/pages/topics")

    if resp != nil {
        fmt.Println(resp.Header.Get("Location"))
    }
}