Description of the feature request:

Currently, bazel sets some headers when sending an HTTP request to fetch artifacts over the internet. While this works well for most cases, it doesn't work at all when the remote server requires some HTTP headers to be set to special values.

For instance, currently bazel sets all the Accept header to text/html, image/gif, image/jpeg, */* in outgoing HTTP requests. In my case, its Accept header that needs to be set to application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json so that docker registry sees no problem responding when the image has oci manifest types.

See: #16659 (comment)

Related to #16682

What underlying problem are you trying to solve with this feature?

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Which operating system are you running Bazel on?

darwin/arm64

What is the output of bazel info release?

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If bazel info release returns development version or (@non-git), tell us how you built Bazel.

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What's the output of git remote get-url origin; git rev-parse master; git rev-parse HEAD ?

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Have you found anything relevant by searching the web?

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Any other information, logs, or outputs that you want to share?

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