diff --git a/MediaBrowser.Common.Implementations/HttpClientManager/HttpClientManager.cs b/MediaBrowser.Common.Implementations/HttpClientManager/HttpClientManager.cs
index 8fccb7c2a9..214ed106d9 100644
--- a/MediaBrowser.Common.Implementations/HttpClientManager/HttpClientManager.cs
+++ b/MediaBrowser.Common.Implementations/HttpClientManager/HttpClientManager.cs
@@ -101,10 +101,35 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.Common.Implementations.HttpClientManager
             return client;
         }
 
-        private PropertyInfo _httpBehaviorPropertyInfo;
+        private WebRequest GetMonoRequest(HttpRequestOptions options, string method, bool enableHttpCompression)
+        {
+            var request = WebRequest.Create(options.Url);
+
+            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(options.AcceptHeader))
+            {
+                request.Headers.Add("Accept", options.AcceptHeader);
+            }
+
+            request.CachePolicy = new RequestCachePolicy(RequestCacheLevel.Revalidate);
+            request.ConnectionGroupName = GetHostFromUrl(options.Url);
+            request.Method = method;
+            request.Timeout = 20000;
+
+            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(options.UserAgent))
+            {
+                request.Headers.Add("User-Agent", options.UserAgent);
+            }
 
-        private HttpWebRequest GetRequest(HttpRequestOptions options, string method, bool enableHttpCompression)
+            return request;
+        }
+
+        private PropertyInfo _httpBehaviorPropertyInfo;
+        private WebRequest GetRequest(HttpRequestOptions options, string method, bool enableHttpCompression)
         {
+#if __MonoCS__
+            return GetMonoRequest(options, method, enableHttpCompression);
+#endif
+            
             var request = HttpWebRequest.CreateHttp(options.Url);
 
             if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(options.AcceptHeader))
diff --git a/MediaBrowser.Mono.userprefs b/MediaBrowser.Mono.userprefs
index 4a91e2e60f..b3c4d6d230 100644
--- a/MediaBrowser.Mono.userprefs
+++ b/MediaBrowser.Mono.userprefs
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
     <Files>
       <File FileName="MediaBrowser.Server.Mono\Program.cs" Line="1" Column="1" />
       <File FileName="MediaBrowser.Server.Mono\IO\FileSystemFactory.cs" Line="1" Column="1" />
-      <File FileName="MediaBrowser.Server.Implementations\Persistence\SqliteExtensions.cs" Line="2" Column="14" />
+      <File FileName="MediaBrowser.Server.Implementations\Persistence\SqliteExtensions.cs" Line="22" Column="29" />
       <File FileName="MediaBrowser.Server.Mono\Native\ServerAuthorization.cs" Line="1" Column="1" />
       <File FileName="MediaBrowser.Server.Mono\Native\NativeApp.cs" Line="1" Column="1" />
       <File FileName="MediaBrowser.Server.Mono\Native\Assemblies.cs" Line="1" Column="1" />
diff --git a/MediaBrowser.ServerApplication/FFMpeg/FFMpegDownloader.cs b/MediaBrowser.ServerApplication/FFMpeg/FFMpegDownloader.cs
index e8af0a13e7..1f329446ec 100644
--- a/MediaBrowser.ServerApplication/FFMpeg/FFMpegDownloader.cs
+++ b/MediaBrowser.ServerApplication/FFMpeg/FFMpegDownloader.cs
@@ -90,11 +90,7 @@ namespace MediaBrowser.ServerApplication.FFMpeg
             {
                 Url = url,
                 CancellationToken = CancellationToken.None,
-                Progress = new Progress<double>(),
-
-                // Make it look like a browser
-                // Try to hide that we're direct linking
-                UserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/30.0.1599.47 Safari/537.36"
+                Progress = new Progress<double>()
             });
         }