diff --git a/advisory_parser/parsers/chrome.py b/advisory_parser/parsers/chrome.py
index 974923f..a682477 100644
--- a/advisory_parser/parsers/chrome.py
+++ b/advisory_parser/parsers/chrome.py
@@ -3,12 +3,15 @@
 # License: LGPLv3+
 
 import re
+import logging
 from datetime import datetime
 
 from advisory_parser.exceptions import AdvisoryParserTextException
 from advisory_parser.flaw import Flaw
 from .utils import get_text_from_url, CVE_REGEX
 
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
 # Chromium does not publish CVSS scores with their CVEs so these values are
 # best-effort guesses based on impact.
 CVSS3_MAP = {
@@ -18,6 +21,13 @@
     "low": "4.3/CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L",
 }
 
+# Constants for Chrome advisory parsing
+SECURITY_FIXES_HEADER = "Security Fixes"
+LABELS_FOOTER = "Labels:\nStable updates"
+DATE_FORMAT = "%A, %B %d, %Y"
+CHROME_VERSION_REGEX = r"\d{2,3}\.\d\.\d{4}\.\d{2,3}"
+CHROMIUM_ISSUE_BASE_URL = "https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id="
+
 
 def parse_chrome_advisory(url):
     advisory_text = get_text_from_url(url)
@@ -26,11 +36,11 @@ def parse_chrome_advisory(url):
     # https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2018/04/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
     advisory_text = re.sub(r"(.)\[", r"\1\n[", advisory_text)
 
-    if "Security Fixes" not in advisory_text:
+    if SECURITY_FIXES_HEADER not in advisory_text:
         raise AdvisoryParserTextException("No security fixes found in {}".format(url))
 
     # Throw away parts of the text after the blog post
-    flaws_text = advisory_text.split("Labels:\nStable updates")[0].strip()
+    flaws_text = advisory_text.split(LABELS_FOOTER)[0].strip()
 
     # Parse out public date
     match = re.search("^Stable Channel Update for Desktop\n(.+)", flaws_text, re.MULTILINE)
@@ -38,7 +48,7 @@ def parse_chrome_advisory(url):
         raise AdvisoryParserTextException("Could not find public date in {}".format(url))
 
     try:
-        public_date = datetime.strptime(match.group(1), "%A, %B %d, %Y")
+        public_date = datetime.strptime(match.group(1), DATE_FORMAT)
     except ValueError:
         raise AdvisoryParserTextException(
             "Could not parse public date ({}) from {}".format(match.group(1), url)
@@ -46,8 +56,8 @@ def parse_chrome_advisory(url):
 
     # Find Chrome version, e.g. 46.0.2490.71
     try:
-        fixed_in = re.search(r"\d{2,3}\.\d\.\d{4}\.\d{2,3}", flaws_text).group(0)
-    except ValueError:
+        fixed_in = re.search(CHROME_VERSION_REGEX, flaws_text).group(0)
+    except (AttributeError, ValueError):
         raise AdvisoryParserTextException("Could not find fixed-in version in {}".format(url))
 
     # Filter out lines that contain CVEs
@@ -72,7 +82,7 @@ def parse_chrome_advisory(url):
         else:
             match = re.search(r"(Critical|High|Medium|Low)", metadata)
             if not match:
-                print("Could not find impact; skipping: {}".format(line))
+                logger.warning("Could not find impact; skipping: %s", line)
                 continue
             else:
                 impact = match.group(1)
@@ -110,7 +120,7 @@ def parse_chrome_advisory(url):
 
         description += "\n\nUpstream bug(s):\n"
         for bug in bug_ids:
-            description += "\nhttps://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=" + bug
+            description += "\n" + CHROMIUM_ISSUE_BASE_URL + bug
 
         com_url = (
             url if "blogspot.com" in url else re.sub(r"blogspot\.[^/]*/", "blogspot.com/", url)
diff --git a/advisory_parser/parsers/utils.py b/advisory_parser/parsers/utils.py
index 54f2a33..e88e717 100644
--- a/advisory_parser/parsers/utils.py
+++ b/advisory_parser/parsers/utils.py
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 # License: LGPLv3+
 
 import re
+import gzip
+import logging
 from urllib.error import HTTPError, URLError
 from urllib.request import urlopen, Request
 
@@ -10,27 +12,35 @@
 
 from advisory_parser.exceptions import AdvisoryParserGetContentException
 
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
 CVE_REGEX = re.compile(r"CVE-\d{4}-\d{4,}")
 
 
 def get_request(url):
-    user_agent = (
-        "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021910 Firefox/3.0.7"
-    )
-    headers = {"User-Agent": user_agent}
+    headers = {
+        "User-Agent": "Advisory-Parser/1.0",
+        "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8",
+        "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate",
+    }
     request = Request(url, None, headers)
     try:
-        res = urlopen(request)
+        res = urlopen(request, timeout=30)
+        data = res.read()
+
+        # Handle gzip-compressed responses
+        if res.headers.get("Content-Encoding") == "gzip":
+            data = gzip.decompress(data)
     except HTTPError as e:
-        error_msg = "Failed to GET with status code: {}".format(e.code)
+        error_msg = "Failed to GET {} with status code: {}".format(url, e.code)
         raise AdvisoryParserGetContentException(error_msg)
     except URLError as e:
-        error_msg = "Failed to establish connection: {}".format(e.reason)
+        error_msg = "Failed to establish connection to {}: {}".format(url, e.reason)
         raise AdvisoryParserGetContentException(error_msg)
     except ValueError:
-        raise AdvisoryParserGetContentException("Invalid URL specified.")
+        raise AdvisoryParserGetContentException("Invalid URL specified: {}".format(url))
     else:
-        return res.read()
+        return data
 
 
 def get_text_from_url(url):