diff --git a/docs/examples/getinmemory.c b/docs/examples/getinmemory.c
index f7e27460f1a8488e7f13782d3f779becc00362f5..c1b6e12d43fa10b5a17a91a1340013bae3380c92 100644
--- a/docs/examples/getinmemory.c
+++ b/docs/examples/getinmemory.c
@@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
   /* we pass our 'chunk' struct to the callback function */
   curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, (void *)&chunk);
 
+  /* some servers don't like requests that are made withput a user-agent
+     field, so we provide one */
+  curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "libcurl-agent/1.0");
+
   /* get it! */
   curl_easy_perform(curl_handle);