diff --git a/lib/ansible/module_utils/urls.py b/lib/ansible/module_utils/urls.py
index ff5b84e42c7..661e4bb159e 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/module_utils/urls.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/module_utils/urls.py
@@ -1020,7 +1020,7 @@ def fetch_url(module, url, data=None, headers=None, method=None,
 
     username = module.params.get('url_username', '')
     password = module.params.get('url_password', '')
-    http_agent = module.params.get('http_agent', None)
+    http_agent = module.params.get('http_agent', 'ansible-httpget')
     force_basic_auth = module.params.get('force_basic_auth', '')
 
     follow_redirects = module.params.get('follow_redirects', 'urllib2')