diff --git a/bitbake/lib/bb/fetch2/wget.py b/bitbake/lib/bb/fetch2/wget.py
index dc025800e6..bb38dd4358 100644
--- a/bitbake/lib/bb/fetch2/wget.py
+++ b/bitbake/lib/bb/fetch2/wget.py
@@ -87,7 +87,8 @@ class Wget(FetchMethod):
         if not ud.localfile:
             ud.localfile = d.expand(urllib.parse.unquote(ud.host + ud.path).replace("/", "."))
 
-        self.basecmd = d.getVar("FETCHCMD_wget") or "/usr/bin/env wget -t 2 -T 30 --passive-ftp"
+        self.basecmd = d.getVar("FETCHCMD_wget") \
+            or "/usr/bin/env wget -t 2 -T 30 --passive-ftp --user-agent='%s'" % (self.user_agent)
 
         if not self.check_certs(d):
             self.basecmd += " --no-check-certificate"
@@ -454,7 +455,7 @@ 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()
@@ -492,7 +493,7 @@ class Wget(FetchMethod):
                     valid = 1
                 elif self._vercmp(version, newver) < 0:
                     version = newver
-                
+
         pupver = re.sub('_', '.', version[1])
 
         bb.debug(3, "*** %s -> UpstreamVersion = %s (CurrentVersion = %s)" %