diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index 1edef631..b32181e8 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 History
 -------
 
+0.7.4 (2011-10-26)
+++++++++++++++++++
+
+* Sesion Hooks fix.
+
 0.7.3 (2011-10-23)
 ++++++++++++++++++
 
diff --git a/requests/defaults.py b/requests/defaults.py
index e3f5478d..90faabee 100644
--- a/requests/defaults.py
+++ b/requests/defaults.py
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ defaults = dict()
 defaults['base_headers'] = {
     'User-Agent': 'python-requests/%s' % __version__,
     'Accept-Encoding': ', '.join(('identity', 'deflate', 'compress', 'gzip')),
+    'Accept': '*/*'
 }
 
 defaults['proxies'] = {}
@@ -36,4 +37,4 @@ defaults['decode_unicode'] = True
 defaults['timeout_fallback'] = True
 # defaults['keep_alive'] = True
 defaults['pool_connections'] = 10
-defaults['pool_maxsize'] = 1
\ No newline at end of file
+defaults['pool_maxsize'] = 1
diff --git a/requests/sessions.py b/requests/sessions.py
index d35dbd21..9a10808e 100644
--- a/requests/sessions.py
+++ b/requests/sessions.py
@@ -168,8 +168,9 @@ class Session(object):
 
             args[attr] = merge_kwargs(local_val, session_val)
 
+
         # Arguments manipulation hook.
-        args = dispatch_hook('args', hooks, args)
+        args = dispatch_hook('args', args['hooks'], args)
 
         r = Request(**args)
 
diff --git a/test_requests.py b/test_requests.py
index fa9390f5..261a01c0 100755
--- a/test_requests.py
+++ b/test_requests.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import unittest
 
 import requests
 import envoy
+from urllib2 import HTTPError
 
 try:
     import omnijson as json
@@ -240,7 +241,7 @@ class RequestsTestSuite(unittest.TestCase):
 
     def test_status_raising(self):
         r = requests.get(httpbin('status', '404'))
-        self.assertRaises(requests.HTTPError, r.raise_for_status)
+        self.assertRaises(HTTPError, r.raise_for_status)
 
         r = requests.get(httpbin('status', '200'))
         self.assertFalse(r.error)