diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/net/http.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/net/http.go
index 65e4ce71bdd..8abbdea8255 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/net/http.go
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/util/net/http.go
@@ -179,10 +179,8 @@ func FormatURL(scheme string, host string, port int, path string) *url.URL {
 }
 
 func GetHTTPClient(req *http.Request) string {
-	if userAgent, ok := req.Header["User-Agent"]; ok {
-		if len(userAgent) > 0 {
-			return userAgent[0]
-		}
+	if ua := req.UserAgent(); len(ua) != 0 {
+		return ua
 	}
 	return "unknown"
 }
diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/server/httplog/httplog.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/server/httplog/httplog.go
index 0a63fcd6910..f8a8a5307aa 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/server/httplog/httplog.go
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/server/httplog/httplog.go
@@ -145,9 +145,9 @@ func (rl *respLogger) Log() {
 	latency := time.Since(rl.startTime)
 	if glog.V(3) {
 		if !rl.hijacked {
-			glog.InfoDepth(1, fmt.Sprintf("%s %s: (%v) %v%v%v [%s %s]", rl.req.Method, rl.req.RequestURI, latency, rl.status, rl.statusStack, rl.addedInfo, rl.req.Header["User-Agent"], rl.req.RemoteAddr))
+			glog.InfoDepth(1, fmt.Sprintf("%s %s: (%v) %v%v%v [%s %s]", rl.req.Method, rl.req.RequestURI, latency, rl.status, rl.statusStack, rl.addedInfo, rl.req.UserAgent(), rl.req.RemoteAddr))
 		} else {
-			glog.InfoDepth(1, fmt.Sprintf("%s %s: (%v) hijacked [%s %s]", rl.req.Method, rl.req.RequestURI, latency, rl.req.Header["User-Agent"], rl.req.RemoteAddr))
+			glog.InfoDepth(1, fmt.Sprintf("%s %s: (%v) hijacked [%s %s]", rl.req.Method, rl.req.RequestURI, latency, rl.req.UserAgent(), rl.req.RemoteAddr))
 		}
 	}
 }