diff --git a/src/org/parosproxy/paros/network/HttpSender.java b/src/org/parosproxy/paros/network/HttpSender.java
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/src/org/parosproxy/paros/network/HttpSender.java
+++ b/src/org/parosproxy/paros/network/HttpSender.java
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 // ZAP: 2013/01/23 Clean up of exception handling/logging.

 // ZAP: 2013/01/30 Issue 478: Allow to choose to send ZAP's managed cookies on 

 // a single Cookie request header and set it as the default

+// ZAP: 2013/07/10 Issue 720: Cannot send non standard http methods 

 

 package org.parosproxy.paros.network;

 

@@ -373,7 +374,10 @@ public class HttpSender {
 		// no more retry

 		modifyUserAgent(msg);

         method = helper.createRequestMethod(msg.getRequestHeader(), msg.getRequestBody());

-        method.setFollowRedirects(isFollowRedirect);

+        if (! (method instanceof GenericMethod)) {

+        	// cant do this for Generic methods - it will fail

+        	method.setFollowRedirects(isFollowRedirect);

+        }

         this.executeMethod(method);

         if (allowState) {

             if (param.isHttpStateEnabled()) {
Issue <I>: Cannot send non standard http methods