diff --git a/daft/daft.pyi b/daft/daft.pyi
index f495af1e56..63acd596a2 100644
--- a/daft/daft.pyi
+++ b/daft/daft.pyi
@@ -427,6 +427,13 @@ class FileInfos:
 
     def __len__(self) -> int: ...
 
+class HTTPConfig:
+    """
+    I/O configuration for accessing HTTP systems
+    """
+
+    user_agent: str | None
+
 class S3Config:
     """
     I/O configuration for accessing an S3-compatible system.
@@ -599,12 +606,14 @@ class IOConfig:
     s3: S3Config
     azure: AzureConfig
     gcs: GCSConfig
+    http: HTTPConfig
 
     def __init__(
         self,
         s3: S3Config | None = None,
         azure: AzureConfig | None = None,
         gcs: GCSConfig | None = None,
+        http: HTTPConfig | None = None,
     ): ...
     @staticmethod
     def from_json(input: str) -> IOConfig:
@@ -618,6 +627,7 @@ class IOConfig:
         s3: S3Config | None = None,
         azure: AzureConfig | None = None,
         gcs: GCSConfig | None = None,
+        http: HTTPConfig | None = None,
     ) -> IOConfig:
         """Replaces values if provided, returning a new IOConfig"""
         ...
diff --git a/daft/io/__init__.py b/daft/io/__init__.py
index 43ab01aac6..a7d1f1a868 100644
--- a/daft/io/__init__.py
+++ b/daft/io/__init__.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
     AzureConfig,
     GCSConfig,
     IOConfig,
+    HTTPConfig,
     S3Config,
     S3Credentials,
     set_io_pool_num_threads,
@@ -52,6 +53,7 @@ def _set_linux_cert_paths():
     "S3Credentials",
     "AzureConfig",
     "GCSConfig",
+    "HTTPConfig",
     "set_io_pool_num_threads",
     "DataCatalogType",
     "DataCatalogTable",
diff --git a/src/common/io-config/src/config.rs b/src/common/io-config/src/config.rs
index e2b1d4e142..94f97e1cad 100644
--- a/src/common/io-config/src/config.rs
+++ b/src/common/io-config/src/config.rs
@@ -4,12 +4,14 @@ use std::fmt::Formatter;
 use serde::Deserialize;
 use serde::Serialize;
 
+use crate::HTTPConfig;
 use crate::{AzureConfig, GCSConfig, S3Config};
 #[derive(Clone, Default, Debug, Serialize, Deserialize, PartialEq, Eq, Hash)]
 pub struct IOConfig {
     pub s3: S3Config,
     pub azure: AzureConfig,
     pub gcs: GCSConfig,
+    pub http: HTTPConfig,
 }
 
 impl IOConfig {
@@ -27,6 +29,10 @@ impl IOConfig {
             "GCS config = {{ {} }}",
             self.gcs.multiline_display().join(", ")
         ));
+        res.push(format!(
+            "HTTP config = {{ {} }}",
+            self.http.multiline_display().join(", ")
+        ));
         res
     }
 }
@@ -38,8 +44,9 @@ impl Display for IOConfig {
             "IOConfig:
 {}
 {}
+{}
 {}",
-            self.s3, self.azure, self.gcs
+            self.s3, self.azure, self.gcs, self.http,
         )
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/common/io-config/src/http.rs b/src/common/io-config/src/http.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c619c0b7d8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/common/io-config/src/http.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+use std::fmt::Display;
+use std::fmt::Formatter;
+
+use serde::Deserialize;
+use serde::Serialize;
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, Serialize, Deserialize, PartialEq, Eq, Hash)]
+pub struct HTTPConfig {
+    pub user_agent: String,
+}
+
+impl Default for HTTPConfig {
+    fn default() -> Self {
+        HTTPConfig {
+            user_agent: "daft/0.0.1".to_string(), // NOTE: Ideally we grab the version of Daft, but that requires a dependency on daft-core
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl HTTPConfig {
+    pub fn multiline_display(&self) -> Vec<String> {
+        vec![format!("user_agent = {}", self.user_agent)]
+    }
+}
+
+impl Display for HTTPConfig {
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> std::result::Result<(), std::fmt::Error> {
+        write!(
+            f,
+            "HTTPConfig
+    user_agent: {}",
+            self.user_agent,
+        )
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/common/io-config/src/lib.rs b/src/common/io-config/src/lib.rs
index d0952541b4..58c4f23978 100644
--- a/src/common/io-config/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/common/io-config/src/lib.rs
@@ -4,8 +4,10 @@ pub mod python;
 mod azure;
 mod config;
 mod gcs;
+mod http;
 mod s3;
 
 pub use crate::{
-    azure::AzureConfig, config::IOConfig, gcs::GCSConfig, s3::S3Config, s3::S3Credentials,
+    azure::AzureConfig, config::IOConfig, gcs::GCSConfig, http::HTTPConfig, s3::S3Config,
+    s3::S3Credentials,
 };
diff --git a/src/common/io-config/src/python.rs b/src/common/io-config/src/python.rs
index 6817ce26ca..dce9459875 100644
--- a/src/common/io-config/src/python.rs
+++ b/src/common/io-config/src/python.rs
@@ -127,15 +127,35 @@ pub struct IOConfig {
     pub config: config::IOConfig,
 }
 
+/// Create configurations to be used when accessing HTTP URLs.
+///
+/// Args:
+///     user_agent (str, optional): The value for the user-agent header, defaults to "daft/{__version__}" if not provided
+///
+/// Example:
+///     >>> io_config = IOConfig(http=HTTPConfig(user_agent="my_application/0.0.1"))
+///     >>> daft.read_parquet("http://some-path", io_config=io_config)
+#[derive(Clone, Default)]
+#[pyclass]
+pub struct HTTPConfig {
+    pub config: crate::HTTPConfig,
+}
+
 #[pymethods]
 impl IOConfig {
     #[new]
-    pub fn new(s3: Option<S3Config>, azure: Option<AzureConfig>, gcs: Option<GCSConfig>) -> Self {
+    pub fn new(
+        s3: Option<S3Config>,
+        azure: Option<AzureConfig>,
+        gcs: Option<GCSConfig>,
+        http: Option<HTTPConfig>,
+    ) -> Self {
         IOConfig {
             config: config::IOConfig {
                 s3: s3.unwrap_or_default().config,
                 azure: azure.unwrap_or_default().config,
                 gcs: gcs.unwrap_or_default().config,
+                http: http.unwrap_or_default().config,
             },
         }
     }
@@ -145,6 +165,7 @@ impl IOConfig {
         s3: Option<S3Config>,
         azure: Option<AzureConfig>,
         gcs: Option<GCSConfig>,
+        http: Option<HTTPConfig>,
     ) -> Self {
         IOConfig {
             config: config::IOConfig {
@@ -153,6 +174,9 @@ impl IOConfig {
                     .map(|azure| azure.config)
                     .unwrap_or(self.config.azure.clone()),
                 gcs: gcs.map(|gcs| gcs.config).unwrap_or(self.config.gcs.clone()),
+                http: http
+                    .map(|http| http.config)
+                    .unwrap_or(self.config.http.clone()),
             },
         }
     }
@@ -185,6 +209,14 @@ impl IOConfig {
         })
     }
 
+    /// Configuration to be used when accessing Azure URLs
+    #[getter]
+    pub fn http(&self) -> PyResult<HTTPConfig> {
+        Ok(HTTPConfig {
+            config: self.config.http.clone(),
+        })
+    }
+
     #[staticmethod]
     pub fn from_json(input: &str) -> PyResult<Self> {
         let config: config::IOConfig = serde_json::from_str(input).map_err(DaftError::from)?;
@@ -826,6 +858,7 @@ pub fn register_modules(_py: Python, parent: &PyModule) -> PyResult<()> {
     parent.add_class::<AzureConfig>()?;
     parent.add_class::<GCSConfig>()?;
     parent.add_class::<S3Config>()?;
+    parent.add_class::<HTTPConfig>()?;
     parent.add_class::<S3Credentials>()?;
     parent.add_class::<IOConfig>()?;
     Ok(())
diff --git a/src/daft-io/src/http.rs b/src/daft-io/src/http.rs
index f455050ede..2fb2cf643d 100644
--- a/src/daft-io/src/http.rs
+++ b/src/daft-io/src/http.rs
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 use std::{num::ParseIntError, ops::Range, string::FromUtf8Error, sync::Arc};
 
 use async_trait::async_trait;
+use common_io_config::HTTPConfig;
 use futures::{stream::BoxStream, TryStreamExt};
 
+use hyper::header;
 use lazy_static::lazy_static;
 use regex::Regex;
 use reqwest::header::{CONTENT_LENGTH, RANGE};
@@ -74,6 +76,9 @@ enum Error {
         "Unable to parse data as Integer while reading header for file: {path}. {source}"
     ))]
     UnableToParseInteger { path: String, source: ParseIntError },
+
+    #[snafu(display("Unable to create HTTP header: {source}"))]
+    UnableToCreateHeader { source: header::InvalidHeaderValue },
 }
 
 /// Finds and retrieves FileMetadata from HTML text
@@ -162,10 +167,18 @@ impl From<Error> for super::Error {
 }
 
 impl HttpSource {
-    pub async fn get_client() -> super::Result<Arc<Self>> {
+    pub async fn get_client(config: &HTTPConfig) -> super::Result<Arc<Self>> {
+        let mut default_headers = header::HeaderMap::new();
+        default_headers.append(
+            "user-agent",
+            header::HeaderValue::from_str(config.user_agent.as_str())
+                .context(UnableToCreateHeaderSnafu)?,
+        );
+
         Ok(HttpSource {
             client: reqwest::ClientBuilder::default()
                 .pool_max_idle_per_host(70)
+                .default_headers(default_headers)
                 .build()
                 .context(UnableToCreateClientSnafu)?,
         }
@@ -327,6 +340,8 @@ impl ObjectSource for HttpSource {
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
 
+    use std::default;
+
     use crate::object_io::ObjectSource;
     use crate::HttpSource;
     use crate::Result;
@@ -336,7 +351,7 @@ mod tests {
         let parquet_file_path = "https://daft-public-data.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/test_fixtures/parquet_small/0dad4c3f-da0d-49db-90d8-98684571391b-0.parquet";
         let parquet_expected_md5 = "929674747af64a98aceaa6d895863bd3";
 
-        let client = HttpSource::get_client().await?;
+        let client = HttpSource::get_client(&default::Default::default()).await?;
         let parquet_file = client.get(parquet_file_path, None, None).await?;
         let bytes = parquet_file.bytes().await?;
         let all_bytes = bytes.as_ref();
diff --git a/src/daft-io/src/lib.rs b/src/daft-io/src/lib.rs
index 087f280888..a6726e278f 100644
--- a/src/daft-io/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/daft-io/src/lib.rs
@@ -191,7 +191,9 @@ impl IOClient {
 
         let new_source = match source_type {
             SourceType::File => LocalSource::get_client().await? as Arc<dyn ObjectSource>,
-            SourceType::Http => HttpSource::get_client().await? as Arc<dyn ObjectSource>,
+            SourceType::Http => {
+                HttpSource::get_client(&self.config.http).await? as Arc<dyn ObjectSource>
+            }
             SourceType::S3 => {
                 S3LikeSource::get_client(&self.config.s3).await? as Arc<dyn ObjectSource>
             }
diff --git a/src/daft-io/src/local.rs b/src/daft-io/src/local.rs
index 72fd001b0b..58eab5d7be 100644
--- a/src/daft-io/src/local.rs
+++ b/src/daft-io/src/local.rs
@@ -332,8 +332,11 @@ pub(crate) async fn collect_file(local_file: LocalFile) -> Result<Bytes> {
 #[cfg(test)]
 
 mod tests {
+    use std::default;
     use std::io::Write;
 
+    use common_io_config::HTTPConfig;
+
     use crate::object_io::{FileMetadata, FileType, ObjectSource};
     use crate::Result;
     use crate::{HttpSource, LocalSource};
@@ -344,7 +347,7 @@ mod tests {
         let parquet_file_path = "https://daft-public-data.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/test_fixtures/parquet_small/0dad4c3f-da0d-49db-90d8-98684571391b-0.parquet";
         let parquet_expected_md5 = "929674747af64a98aceaa6d895863bd3";
 
-        let client = HttpSource::get_client().await?;
+        let client = HttpSource::get_client(&default::Default::default()).await?;
         let parquet_file = client.get(parquet_file_path, None, None).await?;
         let bytes = parquet_file.bytes().await?;
         let all_bytes = bytes.as_ref();