diff --git a/src/komodo_bitcoind.h b/src/komodo_bitcoind.h
index 6fd5767a2..20062c588 100644
--- a/src/komodo_bitcoind.h
+++ b/src/komodo_bitcoind.h
@@ -195,8 +195,9 @@ try_again:
     init_string(&s);
     headers = curl_slist_append(0,"Expect:");
 
-    curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle,CURLOPT_USERAGENT,"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; )");//"mozilla/4.0");//"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; )");
-    curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle,CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,	headers);
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle,CURLOPT_USERAGENT,"mozilla/4.0");//"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; )");
+    if ( headers != 0 )
+        curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle,CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,	headers);
     curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle,CURLOPT_URL,		url);
     curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle,CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION,	(void *)accumulatebytes); 		// send all data to this function
     curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle,CURLOPT_WRITEDATA,		&s); 			// we pass our 's' struct to the callback