diff --git a/discord/http.py b/discord/http.py
index 433697c43..e881062d8 100644
--- a/discord/http.py
+++ b/discord/http.py
@@ -203,12 +203,10 @@ class HTTPClient:
     async def startup(self) -> None:
         if self._started:
             return
-        self.__session = aiohttp.ClientSession(connector=self.connector)
-        self.user_agent = ua = await utils._get_user_agent(self.__session)
-        self.client_build_number = bn = await utils._get_build_number(self.__session)
-        self.browser_version = bv = await utils._get_browser_version(self.__session)
+        self.__session = session = aiohttp.ClientSession(connector=self.connector)
+        self.user_agent, self.browser_version, self.client_build_number = ua, bv, bn = await utils._get_info(session)
         _log.info('Found user agent %s (%s), build number %s.', ua, bv, bn)
-        self.super_properties = super_properties = {
+        self.super_properties = sp = {
             'os': 'Windows',
             'browser': 'Chrome',
             'device': '',
@@ -224,13 +222,13 @@ class HTTPClient:
             'client_build_number': bn,
             'client_event_source': None
         }
-        self.encoded_super_properties = b64encode(json.dumps(self.super_properties).encode()).decode('utf-8')
+        self.encoded_super_properties = b64encode(json.dumps(sp).encode()).decode('utf-8')
         self._started = True
 
     async def ws_connect(self, url: str, *, compress: int = 0, host: Optional[str] = None) -> Any:
         websocket_key = b64encode(bytes(getrandbits(8) for _ in range(16))).decode()  # Thank you Discord-S.C.U.M
         if not host:
-            host = url[6:].split('?')[0].rstrip('/')  # Removes the 'wss://' and the query params
+            host = url[6:].split('?')[0].rstrip('/')  # Removes 'wss://' and the query params
 
         kwargs: Dict[str, Any] = {
             'proxy_auth': self.proxy_auth,
@@ -239,6 +237,17 @@ class HTTPClient:
             'timeout': 30.0,
             'autoclose': False,
             'headers': {
+                'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate',
+                'Accept-Language': 'en-US',
+                'Cache-Control': 'no-cache',
+                'Connection': 'Upgrade',
+                'Host': host,
+                'Origin': 'https://discord.com',
+                'Pragma': 'no-cache',
+                'Sec-WebSocket-Extensions': 'permessage-deflate; client_max_window_bits',
+                'Sec-WebSocket-Key': websocket_key,
+                'Sec-WebSocket-Version': '13',
+                'Upgrade': 'websocket',
                 'User-Agent': self.user_agent,
             },
             'compress': compress,
diff --git a/discord/utils.py b/discord/utils.py
index 88f51a404..0bdc1a359 100644
--- a/discord/utils.py
+++ b/discord/utils.py
@@ -1207,14 +1207,19 @@ class Browser:  # Inspired from https://github.com/NoahCardoza/CaptchaHarvester
             pass
 
 
-async def _get_client_version(session):
-    try:
-        request = await session.get('https://discord.com/api/downloads/distributions/app/installers/latest?arch=x86&channel=stable&platform=win', headers={'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate'}, timeout=7)
-        url = request.headers['location']
-        return url.split('/')[-2]
-    except (asyncio.TimeoutError, RuntimeError):
-        _log.warning('Could not fetch client version.')
-        return '1.0.9003'
+async def _get_info(session: ClientSession) -> Tuple[str, str, int]:
+    for _ in range(3):
+        try:
+            async with session.get('https://discord-user-api.cf/api/v1/properties/web', timeout=5) as resp:
+                json = await resp.json()
+                return json['chrome_user_agent'], json['chrome_version'], json['client_build_number']
+        except Exception:
+            continue
+    _log.warning('Info API down. Falling back to manual fetching...')
+    ua = await _get_user_agent(session)
+    bn = await _get_build_number(session)
+    bv = await _get_browser_version(session)
+    return ua, bv, bn
 
 
 async def _get_build_number(session: ClientSession) -> int:  # Thank you Discord-S.C.U.M
@@ -1228,8 +1233,8 @@ async def _get_build_number(session: ClientSession) -> int:  # Thank you Discord
         build_index = build_file.find('buildNumber') + 14
         return int(build_file[build_index:build_index + 6])
     except asyncio.TimeoutError:
-        _log.warning('Could not fetch client build number.')
-        return 103016
+        _log.critical('Could not fetch client build number. Falling back to hardcoded value...')
+        return 105304
 
 
 async def _get_user_agent(session: ClientSession) -> str:
@@ -1239,8 +1244,8 @@ async def _get_user_agent(session: ClientSession) -> str:
         response = json.loads(await request.text())
         return response[0]
     except asyncio.TimeoutError:
-        _log.warning('Could not fetch user-agent.')
-        return 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.77 Safari/537.36'
+        _log.critical('Could not fetch user-agent. Falling back to hardcoded value...')
+        return 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/96.0.4664.45 Safari/537.36'
 
 
 async def _get_browser_version(session: ClientSession) -> str:
@@ -1252,5 +1257,5 @@ async def _get_browser_version(session: ClientSession) -> str:
             return response[0]['versions'][4]['version']
         raise RuntimeError
     except (asyncio.TimeoutError, RuntimeError):
-        _log.warning('Could not fetch browser version.')
-        return '91.0.4472.77'
+        _log.critical('Could not fetch browser version. Falling back to hardcoded value...')
+        return '96.0.4664.45'