diff --git a/couchpotato/core/plugins/base.py b/couchpotato/core/plugins/base.py
index 9330631d..32472cac 100644
--- a/couchpotato/core/plugins/base.py
+++ b/couchpotato/core/plugins/base.py
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ class Plugin(object):
 
     _needs_shutdown = False
 
+    user_agent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:24.0) Gecko/20130519 Firefox/24.0'
     http_last_use = {}
     http_time_between_calls = 0
     http_failed_request = {}
@@ -106,7 +107,7 @@ class Plugin(object):
         # Fill in some headers
         headers['Referer'] = headers.get('Referer', urlparse(url).hostname)
         headers['Host'] = headers.get('Host', urlparse(url).hostname)
-        headers['User-Agent'] = headers.get('User-Agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.2')
+        headers['User-Agent'] = headers.get('User-Agent', self.user_agent)
         headers['Accept-encoding'] = headers.get('Accept-encoding', 'gzip')
 
         host = urlparse(url).hostname
@@ -138,7 +139,7 @@ class Plugin(object):
 
                 response = opener.open(request, timeout = timeout)
             else:
-                log.info('Opening url: %s, params: %s', (url, [x for x in params.iterkeys()]))
+                log.info('Opening url: %s, params: %s', (url, [x for x in params.iterkeys()] if isinstance(params, dict) else 'with data'))
                 data = tryUrlencode(params) if len(params) > 0 else None
                 request = urllib2.Request(url, data, headers)
 
diff --git a/couchpotato/core/providers/base.py b/couchpotato/core/providers/base.py
index 72bf42a6..e3709aa9 100644
--- a/couchpotato/core/providers/base.py
+++ b/couchpotato/core/providers/base.py
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ class YarrProvider(Provider):
         try:
             cookiejar = cookielib.CookieJar()
             opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(cookiejar))
-            opener.addheaders = []
+            opener.addheaders = [('User-Agent', self.user_agent)]
             urllib2.install_opener(opener)
             log.info2('Logging into %s', self.urls['login'])
             f = opener.open(self.urls['login'], self.getLoginParams())
@@ -114,9 +114,12 @@ class YarrProvider(Provider):
             if self.loginSuccess(output):
                 self.login_opener = opener
                 return True
-        except:
-            log.error('Failed to login %s: %s', (self.getName(), traceback.format_exc()))
 
+            error = 'unknown'
+        except:
+            error = traceback.format_exc()
+
+        log.error('Failed to login %s: %s', (self.getName(), error))
         return False
 
     def loginSuccess(self, output):