diff --git a/lib/http_service/request.rb b/lib/http_service/request.rb
index f21ba38..36d0f80 100644
--- a/lib/http_service/request.rb
+++ b/lib/http_service/request.rb
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ def self.create_request(res)
       end
       body = res.delete :body
       request_id = DB[:requests].insert res
-      original_encoding = res[:content_type][/charset=(.*)/, 1] || 'UTF-8'
+      original_encoding = res[:content_type] && res[:content_type][/charset=(.*)/, 1] || 'UTF-8'
       puts "Detected original encoding: #{original_encoding}"
       body.force_encoding(original_encoding)
       DB[:urls].filter(url: res[:url]).update(last_request_id: request_id, last_body: body.encode('UTF-8', undef: :replace, invalid: :replace))