diff --git a/openlp/core/ui/firsttimeform.py b/openlp/core/ui/firsttimeform.py
index a24876e88..c0c8515b0 100644
--- a/openlp/core/ui/firsttimeform.py
+++ b/openlp/core/ui/firsttimeform.py
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ from openlp.core.lib import translate, PluginStatus, Receiver, build_icon, \
     check_directory_exists
 from openlp.core.lib.settings import Settings
 from openlp.core.utils import get_web_page, AppLocation, join_url, \
-    get_filesystem_encoding
+    get_filesystem_encoding, get_application_version
 from firsttimewizard import Ui_FirstTimeWizard, FirstTimePage
 
 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
@@ -106,7 +106,8 @@ class FirstTimeForm(QtGui.QWizard, Ui_FirstTimeWizard):
         # url is defined in 'download.cfg' file.
         self.baseurl = None
         # Check to see if we have web access
-        self.webAccess = get_web_page(u'%s%s' % (self.web, u'download.cfg'))
+        user_agent = u'OpenLP/' + get_application_version()[u'version']
+        self.webAccess = get_web_page(u'%s%s' % (self.web, u'download.cfg'), header=(u'User-Agent', user_agent))
         if self.webAccess:
             files = self.webAccess.read()
             self.config.readfp(io.BytesIO(files))
diff --git a/openlp/core/utils/__init__.py b/openlp/core/utils/__init__.py
index 964513507..cead844fd 100644
--- a/openlp/core/utils/__init__.py
+++ b/openlp/core/utils/__init__.py
@@ -493,11 +493,11 @@ def get_web_page(url, header=None, update_openlp=False):
     if not url:
         return None
     req = urllib2.Request(url)
-    user_agent = _get_user_agent()
-    log.debug(u'Using user agent: %s', unicode(user_agent))
-    req.add_header('User-Agent', user_agent)
-    if header:
-        req.add_header(header[0], header[1])
+    if not header or header[0].lower() != u'user-agent':
+        user_agent = _get_user_agent()
+        req.add_header('User-Agent', str(user_agent))
+    elif header:
+        req.add_header(str(header[0]), str(header[1]))
     page = None
     log.debug(u'Downloading URL = %s' % url)
     try: