diff --git a/config b/config
index c1af5b12..b87a0473 100644
--- a/config
+++ b/config
@@ -30,3 +30,4 @@
 # monitor_log_frequency = "5"
 # monitor_fullscan_frequency = "10"
 # sync_root_files = "false"
+# user_agent = ""
diff --git a/onedrive.1.in b/onedrive.1.in
index 9a246698..26825e39 100644
--- a/onedrive.1.in
+++ b/onedrive.1.in
@@ -178,6 +178,11 @@ Only upload to OneDrive, do not sync changes from OneDrive locally
 .br
 Configuration file key: \fBupload_only\fP (default: \fBfalse\fP)
 .TP
+\fB\-\-user\-agent\fP ARG
+Set the used User Agent identifier
+.br
+Configuration file key: \fBuser_agent\fP (default: don't change)
+.TP
 \fB\-v \-\-verbose\fP
 Print more details, useful for debugging. Given two times (or more)
 enables even more verbose debug statements.
diff --git a/src/config.d b/src/config.d
index 515cecaa..bb4bd3e4 100644
--- a/src/config.d
+++ b/src/config.d
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ final class Config
 		stringValues["skip_dir"]         = defaultSkipDir;
 		stringValues["log_dir"]          = "/var/log/onedrive/";
 		stringValues["drive_id"]         = "";
+		stringValues["user_agent"]       = "";
 		boolValues["upload_only"]        = false;
 		boolValues["check_nomount"]      = false;
 		boolValues["check_nosync"]       = false;
@@ -292,6 +293,9 @@ final class Config
 				"upload-only",
 					"Only upload to OneDrive, do not sync changes from OneDrive locally",
 					&boolValues["upload_only"],
+				"user-agent",
+					"Specify a User Agent string to the http client",
+					&stringValues["user_agent"],
 				// duplicated from main.d to get full help output!
 				"confdir",
 					"Set the directory used to store the configuration files",
@@ -430,7 +434,8 @@ void outputLongHelp(Option[] opt)
 		"--single-directory",
 		"--skip-file",
 		"--source-directory",
-		"--syncdir" ];
+		"--syncdir",
+	        "--user-agent" ];
 	writeln(`OneDrive - a client for OneDrive Cloud Services
 
 Usage:
diff --git a/src/onedrive.d b/src/onedrive.d
index c087a56a..d48e98b0 100644
--- a/src/onedrive.d
+++ b/src/onedrive.d
@@ -98,7 +98,14 @@ final class OneDriveApi
 		if (cfg.getValueBool("debug_https")) {
 			http.verbose = true;
 			.debugResponse = true;
-        }
+		}
+
+		// Custom User Agent
+		if (cfg.getValueString("user_agent") != "") {
+			http.setUserAgent = cfg.getValueString("user_agent");
+		} else {
+			http.setUserAgent = "OneDrive Client for Linux " ~ strip(import("version"));
+		}
 		
 		// What version of HTTP protocol do we use?
 		// Curl >= 7.62.0 defaults to http2 for a significant number of operations