diff --git a/htroot/api/util/getpageinfo_p.java b/htroot/api/util/getpageinfo_p.java
index 0e3a98ca5..cc5e9ccb8 100755
--- a/htroot/api/util/getpageinfo_p.java
+++ b/htroot/api/util/getpageinfo_p.java
@@ -1,15 +1,11 @@
 
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.Writer;
 import java.net.MalformedURLException;
 import java.util.Set;
 
 import de.anomic.crawler.HTTPLoader;
 import de.anomic.htmlFilter.htmlFilterContentScraper;
-import de.anomic.htmlFilter.htmlFilterWriter;
-import de.anomic.http.httpClient;
 import de.anomic.http.httpRequestHeader;
-import de.anomic.kelondro.util.FileUtils;
 import de.anomic.plasma.plasmaSwitchboard;
 import de.anomic.server.serverObjects;
 import de.anomic.server.serverSwitch;
@@ -48,15 +44,7 @@ public class getpageinfo_p {
                     final yacyURL u = new yacyURL(url, null);
                     final httpRequestHeader reqHeader = new httpRequestHeader();
                     reqHeader.put(httpRequestHeader.USER_AGENT, HTTPLoader.yacyUserAgent); // do not set the crawler user agent, because this page was loaded by manual entering of the url
-                    final byte[] r = httpClient.wget(u.toString(), reqHeader, 5000);
-                    if (r == null) return prop;
-                    final String contentString=new String(r);
-                    
-                    final htmlFilterContentScraper scraper = new htmlFilterContentScraper(u);
-                    //OutputStream os = new htmlFilterOutputStream(null, scraper, null, false);
-                    final Writer writer = new htmlFilterWriter(null,null,scraper,null,false);
-                    FileUtils.copy(contentString,writer);
-                    writer.close();
+                    final htmlFilterContentScraper scraper = htmlFilterContentScraper.parseResource(u, reqHeader);
                     
                     // put the document title 
                     prop.putXML("title", scraper.getTitle());
diff --git a/source/de/anomic/htmlFilter/htmlFilterContentScraper.java b/source/de/anomic/htmlFilter/htmlFilterContentScraper.java
index fab9809d1..be114593d 100644
--- a/source/de/anomic/htmlFilter/htmlFilterContentScraper.java
+++ b/source/de/anomic/htmlFilter/htmlFilterContentScraper.java
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ package de.anomic.htmlFilter;
 import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.Reader;
 import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
 import java.io.Writer;
 import java.net.MalformedURLException;
@@ -503,13 +504,21 @@ public class htmlFilterContentScraper extends htmlFilterAbstractScraper implemen
         // load page
         final httpRequestHeader reqHeader = new httpRequestHeader();
         reqHeader.put(httpRequestHeader.USER_AGENT, HTTPLoader.crawlerUserAgent);
-        final byte[] page = httpClient.wget(location.toString(), reqHeader, 10000);
-        if (page == null) throw new IOException("no response from url " + location.toString());
+        return parseResource(location, reqHeader);
+    }
+    
+    public static htmlFilterContentScraper parseResource(final yacyURL location, final httpRequestHeader reqHeader) throws IOException {
+        final Reader pageReader = httpClient.wgetReader(location.toString(), reqHeader, 10000);
+        if (pageReader == null) throw new IOException("no response from url " + location.toString());
         
         // scrape content
         final htmlFilterContentScraper scraper = new htmlFilterContentScraper(location);
         final Writer writer = new htmlFilterWriter(null, null, scraper, null, false);
-        FileUtils.copy(new ByteArrayInputStream(page), writer, Charset.forName("UTF-8"));
+        try {
+            FileUtils.copy(pageReader, writer);
+        } finally {
+            pageReader.close();
+        }
         
         return scraper;
     }
diff --git a/source/de/anomic/http/httpClient.java b/source/de/anomic/http/httpClient.java
index 1f96f1bae..c02050645 100644
--- a/source/de/anomic/http/httpClient.java
+++ b/source/de/anomic/http/httpClient.java
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ package de.anomic.http;
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+import java.io.Reader;
+import java.nio.charset.Charset;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.List;
@@ -765,6 +768,28 @@ public class httpClient {
         }
         return null;
     }
+    public static Reader wgetReader(final String uri) {
+        return wgetReader(uri, new httpRequestHeader(), 10000, null);
+    }
+    public static Reader wgetReader(final String uri, final httpRequestHeader header, final int timeout) {
+        return wgetReader(uri, header, timeout, null);
+    }
+    public static Reader wgetReader(final String uri, final httpRequestHeader header, final int timeout, final String vhost) {
+        assert uri != null : "precondition violated: uri != null";
+        addHostHeader(header, vhost);
+        final httpClient client = new httpClient(timeout, header);
+
+        // do the request
+        httpResponse response = null;
+        try {
+            response = client.GET(uri);
+            Charset charset = response.getResponseHeader().getCharSet();
+            return new InputStreamReader(response.getDataAsStream(), charset);
+        } catch (final IOException e) {
+            Log.logWarning("HTTPC", "wgetReader(" + uri + ") failed: " + e.getMessage());
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
 
     /**
      * adds a Host-header to the header if vhost is not null