diff --git a/linkcheck/checker/httpurl.py b/linkcheck/checker/httpurl.py
index e0c79254..a0ed556f 100644
--- a/linkcheck/checker/httpurl.py
+++ b/linkcheck/checker/httpurl.py
@@ -299,11 +299,7 @@ class HttpUrl(internpaturl.InternPatternUrl, proxysupport.ProxySupport):
                 self.set_result(_("OK"))
 
     def get_content(self):
-        if self.text is None:
-            self.get_raw_content()
-            self.soup = htmlsoup.make_soup(self.data, self.encoding)
-            self.text = self.data.decode(self.soup.original_encoding)
-        return self.text
+        return super().get_content(self.encoding)
 
     def read_content(self):
         """Return data and data size for this URL.
diff --git a/linkcheck/checker/urlbase.py b/linkcheck/checker/urlbase.py
index 1b288ba5..cccb4f38 100644
--- a/linkcheck/checker/urlbase.py
+++ b/linkcheck/checker/urlbase.py
@@ -628,10 +628,10 @@ class UrlBase:
             self.data = self.download_content()
         return self.data
 
-    def get_content(self):
+    def get_content(self, encoding=None):
         if self.text is None:
             self.get_raw_content()
-            self.soup = htmlsoup.make_soup(self.data)
+            self.soup = htmlsoup.make_soup(self.data, encoding)
             # Sometimes soup.original_encoding is None!  Better mangled text
             # than an internal crash, eh?  ISO-8859-1 is a safe fallback in the
             # sense that any binary blob can be decoded, it'll never cause a