Python GET Requests causing 100% CPU Usage Spike

Question

I'm using the python requests library (version 2.4.1) for performing a simple get request, code is below, nothing fancy here. On most website's there are no issues. But on some websites, one in particular www.pricegrabber.com, I experience 100% CPU usage and the code never moves past the point of the get request. No timeout occurs, nothing, just a huge CPU usage spike that never stops.

import requests
url = 'http://www.pricegrabber.com'
r = requests.get(url, timeout=(1, 1))
print 'SUCESS'
print r

Answer 1

Using python 2.7, the latest stable version of the 'requests' library, and enabling logging as shown in this answer indicates that the HTTP request is stuck in a redirect loop.

INFO:requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool:Starting new HTTP connection (1): www.pricegrabber.com
DEBUG:requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool:"GET / HTTP/1.1" 301 20
DEBUG:requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool:"GET /index.php/ut=43bb2597a77557f5 HTTP/1.1" 301 20
DEBUG:requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool:"GET /?ut=43bb2597a77557f5 HTTP/1.1" 301 20
DEBUG:requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool:"GET /?ut=43bb2597a77557f5 HTTP/1.1" 301 20
DEBUG:requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool:"GET /?ut=43bb2597a77557f5 HTTP/1.1" 301 20

...

This continues a bit until:

requests.exceptions.TooManyRedirects: Exceeded 30 redirects.

And the code I used to discover this:

#!/usr/bin/env python

import logging
import requests

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)

url = 'http://www.pricegrabber.com'
r = requests.get(url, timeout=(1, 1))

print 'SUCCESS'
print r