diff --git a/conf/bitbake.conf b/conf/bitbake.conf
index f5a5a333a..a16f72d25 100644
--- a/conf/bitbake.conf
+++ b/conf/bitbake.conf
@@ -44,3 +44,4 @@ TARGET_ARCH =3D "${BUILD_ARCH}"
 TMPDIR =3D "${TOPDIR}/tmp"
 WORKDIR =3D "${TMPDIR}/work/${PF}"
 GITPKGV =3D "${@bb.fetch2.get_srcrev(d, 'gitpkgv_revision')}"
+BB_FETCH_USER_AGENT ??=3D "bitbake/${BB_VERSION}"
diff --git a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-fetching.rst b/d=
oc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-fetching.rst
index fb4f0a23d..0ee07992f 100644
--- a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-fetching.rst
+++ b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-fetching.rst
@@ -221,13 +221,21 @@ HTTP/FTP wget fetcher (``http://``, ``ftp://``, ``h=
ttps://``)
 This fetcher obtains files from web and FTP servers. Internally, the
 fetcher uses the wget utility.
=20
-The executable and parameters used are specified by the
-``FETCHCMD_wget`` variable, which defaults to sensible values. The
-fetcher supports a parameter "downloadfilename" that allows the name of
-the downloaded file to be specified. Specifying the name of the
-downloaded file is useful for avoiding collisions in
-:term:`DL_DIR` when dealing with multiple files that
-have the same name.
+The executable and parameters used are specified by the ``FETCHCMD_wget`=
`
+variable, which defaults to sensible values. The fetcher supports
+parameters:
+
+-  *downloadfilename:* That allows the name of the downloaded file
+   to be specified.
+
+-  *user_agent:* Enable to use a default ``bitbake/${BB_VERSION}`` user-=
agent
+   which is defined in :term:`BB_FETCH_USER_AGENT`.
+
+Specifying the name of the downloaded file is useful for avoiding
+collisions in :term:`DL_DIR` when dealing with multiple files
+that have the same name. A few HTTP servers block requests with
+the default wget user-agent, in this case specifying a valid
+user-agent can solve this issue.
=20
 If a username and password are specified in the ``SRC_URI``, a Basic
 Authorization header will be added to each request, including across red=
irects.
@@ -239,6 +247,7 @@ Some example URLs are as follows::
    SRC_URI =3D "http://oe.handhelds.org/not_there.aac"
    SRC_URI =3D "ftp://oe.handhelds.org/not_there_as_well.aac"
    SRC_URI =3D "ftp://you@oe.handhelds.org/home/you/secret.plan"
+   SRC_URI =3D "https://oe.handhelds.org/not_there.aac;user_agent=3D1"
=20
 .. note::
=20
diff --git a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.rs=
t b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.rst
index 899e584f9..3f310bd72 100644
--- a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.rst
+++ b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.rst
@@ -699,6 +699,11 @@ overview of their function and contents.
       Within an executing task, this variable holds the hash of the task=
 as
       returned by the currently enabled signature generator.
=20
+   :term:`BB_FETCH_USER_AGENT`
+      Specifies a user-agent string which BitBake uses if "user_agent"
+      parameter is enabled for HTTP/FTP wget fetcher. Default value can
+      be found in ``conf/bitbake.conf``.
+
    :term:`BB_VERBOSE_LOGS`
       Controls how verbose BitBake is during builds. If set, shell scrip=
ts
       echo commands and shell script output appears on standard out
diff --git a/lib/bb/fetch2/wget.py b/lib/bb/fetch2/wget.py
index 2e9211763..30a56df71 100644
--- a/lib/bb/fetch2/wget.py
+++ b/lib/bb/fetch2/wget.py
@@ -52,11 +52,8 @@ class WgetProgressHandler(bb.progress.LineFilterProgre=
ssHandler):
=20
 class Wget(FetchMethod):
     """Class to fetch urls via 'wget'"""
-
-    # CDNs like CloudFlare may do a 'browser integrity test' which can f=
ail
-    # with the standard wget/urllib User-Agent, so pretend to be a moder=
n
-    # browser.
-    user_agent =3D "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:84.0) Gec=
ko/20100101 Firefox/84.0"
+    def init(self, d):