answer for stackoverflow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15093511/play-2-0-4-any-chance-to-set-followredirects-to-false-in-ws-response-in-java-co/15115233#15115233

Application.java

package controllers;

import play.api.libs.ws.Response;
import play.api.libs.ws.WS$;
import play.libs.F;
import play.libs.WS;
import play.mvc.*;

public class Application extends Controller {

    public static Result index() {
        final String url = "http://localhost:80";
        final F.Promise<WS.Response> responsePromise = wsHead(url);
        return async(responsePromise.map(new F.Function<WS.Response, Result>() {
            @Override
            public Result apply(WS.Response response) throws Throwable {
                return ok("got status: " + response.getStatus());
            }
        }));
    }

    private static F.Promise<WS.Response> wsHead(String url) {
        return new F.Promise(WS$.MODULE$.url(url).head()).map(new F.Function<Response, WS.Response>() {
            @Override
            public WS.Response apply(Response o) throws Throwable {
                return new WS.Response(o.getAHCResponse());
            }
        });
    }
}