diff --git a/bitbake/lib/bb/fetch2/wget.py b/bitbake/lib/bb/fetch2/wget.py
index e8b1292433..493a5b62ee 100644
--- a/bitbake/lib/bb/fetch2/wget.py
+++ b/bitbake/lib/bb/fetch2/wget.py
@@ -463,7 +463,7 @@ class Wget(FetchMethod):
         f = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile()
         with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory(prefix="wget-index-") as workdir, tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(dir=workdir, prefix="wget-listing-") as f:
             fetchcmd = self.basecmd
-            fetchcmd += " -O " + f.name + " --user-agent='" + self.user_agent + "' '" + uri + "'"
+            fetchcmd += " -O " + f.name + " '" + uri + "'"
             try:
                 self._runwget(ud, d, fetchcmd, True, workdir=workdir)
                 fetchresult = f.read()