# ActivityPub: no user-agent sent with request Failure while creating client

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/activitypub-no-user-agent-sent-with-request-failure-while-creating-client/391245
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** activitypub
**Created:** [December 14, 2025, 1:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/activitypub-no-user-agent-sent-with-request-failure-while-creating-client/391245 "2025-12-14T01:53:05Z")
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### Author: ![pmusaraj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pmusaraj/32/119489_2.png) [@pmusaraj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pmusaraj)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2025, 2:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/activitypub-no-user-agent-sent-with-request-failure-while-creating-client/391245/2 "2025-12-15T14:46:17Z")

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This is a reasonable feature request. I gave it a shot in this PR: [DEV: Add support for optional User-Agent header in outgoing requests by pmusaraj · Pull Request #268 · discourse/discourse-activity-pub · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-activity-pub/pull/268)

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