diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 656931f..018af09 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -110,3 +110,19 @@ following config in config.yml.
 SilverStripe\ExternalLinks\Tasks\CurlLinkChecker::
   bypass_cache: 1
 ```
+
+## Headers
+
+You may want to set headers to be sent with the CURL request (eg: user-agent) to avoid website rejecting the request thinking it is a bot.
+You can set them with the following config in config.yml.
+
+```yaml
+# Headers
+SilverStripe\ExternalLinks\Tasks\CurlLinkChecker:
+  user_agent: "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:53.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/53.0"
+  headers:
+    - "accept-encoding: gzip, deflate, br"
+    - "referer: https://www.domain.com/"
+    - "sec-fetch-mode: navigate"
+    ...
+```
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/Tasks/CurlLinkChecker.php b/src/Tasks/CurlLinkChecker.php
index df6fc76..cc8f2d1 100644
--- a/src/Tasks/CurlLinkChecker.php
+++ b/src/Tasks/CurlLinkChecker.php
@@ -31,6 +31,24 @@ class CurlLinkChecker implements LinkChecker
      */
     private static $bypass_cache = false;
 
+    /**
+     * Set default user agent as config
+     * Override via YAML file
+     * 
+     * * @config
+     * @var string
+     */
+    private static $user_agent = '';
+
+    /**
+     * Allow to pass custom header to be in CURL request
+     * 
+     * * @config
+     * @var array
+     */
+
+     private static $headers = [];
+
     /**
      * Return cache
      *
@@ -66,11 +84,28 @@ class CurlLinkChecker implements LinkChecker
         // No cached result so just request
         $handle = curl_init($href);
         curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
+        curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5);
+        curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
         if ($this->config()->get('follow_location')) {
             curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
         }
-        curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5);
-        curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
+
+        // Add user agent
+        $userAgent = trim($this->config()->get('user_agent'));
+        if ($userAgent) {
+            curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_USERAGENT , $userAgent);
+        }
+
+        // Other headers
+        if ($headers = $this->config()->get('headers')) {
+            if (is_array($headers)) {
+                 curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER , $headers);
+            } else {
+                 curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER , array($headers));
+            }
+        }
+        
+        // Retrieve http code
         curl_exec($handle);
         $httpCode = curl_getinfo($handle, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
         curl_close($handle);
@@ -79,6 +114,7 @@ class CurlLinkChecker implements LinkChecker
             // Cache result
             $this->getCache()->set($cacheKey, $httpCode);
         }
+
         return $httpCode;
     }
 }