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Most sensible thing may be to just accept a 'headers' key with a map of HTTP headers to set.

Thus:

$foo = Http::get($url, array(
  'followRedirects' => false,
  'postData' => array(
    'foo' => 'bar',
    'baz' => 'quux',
  ),
  'headers' => array(
    'User-Agent': 'my special extension',
    'Accept': 'application/x-something',
  )
);

Doing some compat testing and I found out that this is actually lost functionality.  Here's what Http::get looked like in 1.15

public static function get( $url, $timeout = 'default', $opts = array() ) {
  return Http::request( "GET", $url, $timeout, $opts );

public static function request( $method, $url, $timeout = 'default', $curlOptions = array() ) {


and $curlOptions can accept CURLOPT_USERAGENT

...reviving that would be a bit of a hack though. CURL isn't the only thing we support.

Created attachment 9087 [details]
Implement UA at Http::request() level

I'm not so sure it's that hard or that hacky.

Patch applied in r103765