@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ collections.Mapping.register(UserDict.DictMixin)

 from hashlib import sha1

 import jsonrpc.jsonutil

+from jsonrpc import __version__

 from jsonrpc.common import Response, Request

 __all__ = ['JSONRPCProxy', 'ProxyEvents']

@@ -90,6 +91,17 @@ class ProxyEvents(object):

 		'''allow a subclass to access the response data before it is returned to the user'''

 		return data

+

+class JSONRPCProcessor(urllib2.BaseHandler):

+	def __init__(self):

+		self.handler_order = 100

+

+	def http_request(self, request):

+		request.add_header('content-type', 'application/json')

+		request.add_header('user-agent', 'jsonrpc/'+__version__)

+		return request

+

+

 class JSONRPCProxy(object):

 	'''A class implementing a JSON-RPC Proxy.

@@ -139,7 +151,7 @@ class JSONRPCProxy(object):

 		cj = cookielib.CookieJar()

 		self._opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(cj))

-

+		self._opener.add_handler(JSONRPCProcessor())

 	def _set_opener(self, opener):