diff --git a/basis/http/http-tests.factor b/basis/http/http-tests.factor
index 2b9cd100f7..0d4282b1d7 100644
--- a/basis/http/http-tests.factor
+++ b/basis/http/http-tests.factor
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ IN: http.tests
 
 [ "text/html" utf8 ] [ "text/html;  charset=UTF-8" parse-content-type ] unit-test
 
+[ "text/html" utf8 ] [ "text/html; charset=\"utf-8\"" parse-content-type ] unit-test
+
 [ "application/octet-stream" binary ] [ "application/octet-stream" parse-content-type ] unit-test
 
 : lf>crlf "\n" split "\r\n" join ;
diff --git a/basis/http/http.factor b/basis/http/http.factor
index c7f10a789d..bf58f5c238 100755
--- a/basis/http/http.factor
+++ b/basis/http/http.factor
@@ -213,7 +213,10 @@ TUPLE: post-data data params content-type content-encoding ;
         swap >>content-type ;
 
 : parse-content-type-attributes ( string -- attributes )
-    " " split harvest [ "=" split1 [ >lower ] dip ] { } map>assoc ;
+    " " split harvest [
+        "=" split1
+        [ >lower ] [ "\"" ?head drop "\"" ?tail drop ] bi*
+    ] { } map>assoc ;
 
 : parse-content-type ( content-type -- type encoding )
     ";" split1