diff --git a/couchpotato/core/providers/nzb/newznab/main.py b/couchpotato/core/providers/nzb/newznab/main.py
index c1eed852..d4f7c914 100644
--- a/couchpotato/core/providers/nzb/newznab/main.py
+++ b/couchpotato/core/providers/nzb/newznab/main.py
@@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ class Newznab(NZBProvider, RSS):
             # Get final redirected url
             log.debug('Checking %s for redirects.', url)
             req = urllib2.Request(url)
+            req.add_header('User-Agent', self.user_agent)
             res = urllib2.urlopen(req)
             finalurl = res.geturl()
             if finalurl != url: