diff --git a/proxy/http/server.go b/proxy/http/server.go
index 13fb650ab..746ef204c 100644
--- a/proxy/http/server.go
+++ b/proxy/http/server.go
@@ -212,6 +212,11 @@ func StripHopByHopHeaders(header http.Header) {
 	for _, h := range strings.Split(connections, ",") {
 		header.Del(strings.TrimSpace(h))
 	}
+
+	// Prevent UA from being set to golang's default ones
+	if len(header.Get("User-Agent")) == 0 {
+		header.Set("User-Agent", "")
+	}
 }
 
 var errWaitAnother = newError("keep alive")
diff --git a/proxy/http/server_test.go b/proxy/http/server_test.go
index f2d1dafc0..c4b156f16 100644
--- a/proxy/http/server_test.go
+++ b/proxy/http/server_test.go
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ Foo: foo
 Bar: bar
 Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
 Proxy-Authenticate: abc
-User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; de-de) AppleWebKit/523.10.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.4 Safari/523.10
 Accept-Encoding: gzip
 Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,UTF-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
 Cache-Control: no-cache
@@ -37,6 +36,7 @@ Accept-Language: de,en;q=0.7,en-us;q=0.3
 	assert(req.Header.Get("Connection"), Equals, "keep-alive,Foo, Bar")
 	assert(req.Header.Get("Proxy-Connection"), Equals, "keep-alive")
 	assert(req.Header.Get("Proxy-Authenticate"), Equals, "abc")
+	assert(req.Header.Get("User-Agent"), IsEmpty)
 
 	StripHopByHopHeaders(req.Header)
 	assert(req.Header.Get("Connection"), IsEmpty)
@@ -44,4 +44,5 @@ Accept-Language: de,en;q=0.7,en-us;q=0.3
 	assert(req.Header.Get("Bar"), IsEmpty)
 	assert(req.Header.Get("Proxy-Connection"), IsEmpty)
 	assert(req.Header.Get("Proxy-Authenticate"), IsEmpty)
+	assert(req.Header.Get("User-Agent"), IsEmpty)
 }