Simple User-Agent question

Hi,
I'm using the java.net.URL class to get an XML document.
However, the stupid server I'm requesting from automattically gives a 403 error if the User-Agent field of the request starts with "Java".
How can I change the User-Agent field of any URL or URLConnection request in one shot? I don't want to use URLConnection's setDefaultRequestProperty in every instance a request is made (the static class method is depracted) because I want to keep my code short.
I just want to do
URL url = new URL( "http://www.sdkjf.com/xml?blah=3" );
in = url.openStream( );
and then read in using my parser. I have not found in the API a method for setting the User-Agent once in an application. How do you do it?
thanks

The main issue was that there is there are already alot of XML requests made by just using a URL class and calling url.openStream() all over the application (1000s of classes)
so I was wondering if there was a method that I could use to globally set all URL requests in the applicatoin to have User-Agent set to something other than "Java...". just one time when the application starts up
There is a static setDefaultRequestProperty in the URLConnection class. But that is deprecated. What I don't want to do is grep for all lines that say openStream() (in possibly other people's code) and replace it with a openConnection(); getInsputStream();
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