diff --git a/lib/libfetch/fetch.3 b/lib/libfetch/fetch.3
index 34ca445a1eaa..6b2e4c00b50b 100644
--- a/lib/libfetch/fetch.3
+++ b/lib/libfetch/fetch.3
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\"-
-.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2011 Dag-Erling Smørgrav
+.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2013 Dag-Erling Smørgrav
 .\" Copyright (c) 2013 Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de>
 .\" All rights reserved.
 .\"
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd January 25, 2013
+.Dd July 30, 2013
 .Dt FETCH 3
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -571,6 +571,15 @@ variable is set.
 Same as
 .Ev FTP_PROXY ,
 for compatibility.
+.It Ev HTTP_ACCEPT
+Specifies the value of the
+.Va Accept
+header for HTTP requests.
+If empty, no
+.Va Accept
+header is sent.
+The default is
+.Dq */* .
 .It Ev HTTP_AUTH
 Specifies HTTP authorization parameters as a colon-separated list of
 items.
diff --git a/lib/libfetch/http.c b/lib/libfetch/http.c
index 1fbc5ff9cac2..99b8030e7386 100644
--- a/lib/libfetch/http.c
+++ b/lib/libfetch/http.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*-
- * Copyright (c) 2000-2011 Dag-Erling Smørgrav
+ * Copyright (c) 2000-2013 Dag-Erling Smørgrav
  * All rights reserved.
  *
  * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
@@ -1664,6 +1664,12 @@ http_request(struct url *URL, const char *op, struct url_stat *us,
 		}
 
 		/* other headers */
+		if ((p = getenv("HTTP_ACCEPT")) != NULL) {
+			if (*p != '\0')
+				http_cmd(conn, "Accept: %s", p);
+		} else {
+			http_cmd(conn, "Accept: */*");
+		}
 		if ((p = getenv("HTTP_REFERER")) != NULL && *p != '\0') {
 			if (strcasecmp(p, "auto") == 0)
 				http_cmd(conn, "Referer: %s://%s%s",
diff --git a/usr.bin/fetch/fetch.1 b/usr.bin/fetch/fetch.1
index 06e144243a6c..6053518a8dad 100644
--- a/usr.bin/fetch/fetch.1
+++ b/usr.bin/fetch/fetch.1
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd September 27, 2011
+.Dd July 30, 2013
 .Dt FETCH 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -340,6 +340,7 @@ for a description of additional environment variables, including
 .Ev FTP_PASSWORD ,
 .Ev FTP_PROXY ,
 .Ev ftp_proxy ,
+.Ev HTTP_ACCEPT ,
 .Ev HTTP_AUTH ,
 .Ev HTTP_PROXY ,
 .Ev http_proxy ,