diff --git a/src/browser/browser.zig b/src/browser/browser.zig
index e361838e..e7e2445c 100644
--- a/src/browser/browser.zig
+++ b/src/browser/browser.zig
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ const Types = @import("root").Types;
 const parser = @import("netsurf");
 const Loader = @import("loader.zig").Loader;
 const Dump = @import("dump.zig");
-const Mime = @import("mime.zig");
+const Mime = @import("mime.zig").Mime;
 
 const jsruntime = @import("jsruntime");
 const Loop = jsruntime.Loop;
@@ -375,8 +375,10 @@ pub const Page = struct {
         defer alloc.free(ct.?);
 
         log.debug("header content-type: {s}", .{ct.?});
-        const mime = try Mime.parse(ct.?);
-        if (mime.eql(Mime.HTML)) {
+        var mime = try Mime.parse(alloc, ct.?);
+        defer mime.deinit();
+
+        if (mime.isHTML()) {
             try self.loadHTMLDoc(req.reader(), mime.charset orelse "utf-8", auxData);
         } else {
             log.info("non-HTML document: {s}", .{ct.?});
diff --git a/src/browser/mime.zig b/src/browser/mime.zig
index da8ac710..3716939f 100644
--- a/src/browser/mime.zig
+++ b/src/browser/mime.zig
@@ -17,143 +17,375 @@
 // along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
 const std = @import("std");
-const testing = std.testing;
+const Allocator = std.mem.Allocator;
 
-const Reader = @import("../str/parser.zig").Reader;
+pub const Mime = struct {
+    content_type: ContentType,
+    params: []const u8 = "",
+    charset: ?[]const u8 = null,
+    arena: std.heap.ArenaAllocator,
 
-const Self = @This();
+    pub const ContentTypeEnum = enum {
+        text_xml,
+        text_html,
+        text_plain,
+        other,
+    };
 
-const MimeError = error{
-    Empty,
-    TooBig,
-    Invalid,
-    InvalidChar,
+    pub const ContentType = union(ContentTypeEnum) {
+        text_xml: void,
+        text_html: void,
+        text_plain: void,
+        other: struct { type: []const u8, sub_type: []const u8 },
+    };
+
+    pub fn parse(allocator: Allocator, input: []const u8) !Mime {
+        if (input.len > 255) {
+            return error.TooBig;
+        }
+
+        var arena = std.heap.ArenaAllocator.init(allocator);
+        errdefer arena.deinit();
+
+        var trimmed = trim(input);
+
+        const content_type, const type_len = try parseContentType(trimmed);
+        if (type_len >= trimmed.len) {
+            return .{ .arena = arena, .content_type = content_type };
+        }
+
+        const params = trimLeft(trimmed[type_len..]);
+
+        var charset: ?[]const u8 = null;
+
+        var it = std.mem.splitScalar(u8, params, ';');
+        while (it.next()) |attr| {
+            const i = std.mem.indexOfScalarPos(u8, attr, 0, '=') orelse return error.Invalid;
+            const name = trimLeft(attr[0..i]);
+
+            const value = trimRight(attr[i + 1 ..]);
+            if (value.len == 0) {
+                return error.Invalid;
+            }
+
+            switch (name.len) {
+                7 => if (isCaseEqual("charset", name)) {
+                    charset = try parseValue(arena.allocator(), value);
+                },
+                else => {},
+            }
+        }
+
+        return .{
+            .arena = arena,
+            .params = params,
+            .charset = charset,
+            .content_type = content_type,
+        };
+    }
+
+    pub fn deinit(self: *Mime) void {
+        self.arena.deinit();
+    }
+
+    pub fn isHTML(self: *const Mime) bool {
+        return self.content_type == .text_html;
+    }
+
+    fn parseContentType(value: []const u8) !struct { ContentType, usize } {
+        const separator = std.mem.indexOfScalarPos(u8, value, 0, '/') orelse {
+            return error.Invalid;
+        };
+        const end = std.mem.indexOfScalarPos(u8, value, separator, ';') orelse blk: {
+            break :blk value.len;
+        };
+
+        const main_type = value[0..separator];
+        const sub_type = trimRight(value[separator + 1 .. end]);
+
+        if (parseCommonContentType(main_type, sub_type)) |content_type| {
+            return .{ content_type, end + 1 };
+        }
+
+        if (main_type.len == 0) {
+            return error.Invalid;
+        }
+        if (validType(main_type) == false) {
+            return error.Invalid;
+        }
+
+        if (sub_type.len == 0) {
+            return error.Invalid;
+        }
+        if (validType(sub_type) == false) {
+            return error.Invalid;
+        }
+
+        const content_type = ContentType{ .other = .{
+            .type = main_type,
+            .sub_type = sub_type,
+        } };
+
+        return .{ content_type, end + 1 };
+    }
+
+    fn parseCommonContentType(main_type: []const u8, sub_type: []const u8) ?ContentType {
+        switch (main_type.len) {
+            4 => if (isCaseEqual("text", main_type)) {
+                switch (sub_type.len) {
+                    3 => if (isCaseEqual("xml", sub_type)) {
+                        return .{ .text_xml = {} };
+                    },
+                    4 => if (isCaseEqual("html", sub_type)) {
+                        return .{ .text_html = {} };
+                    },
+                    5 => if (isCaseEqual("plain", sub_type)) {
+                        return .{ .text_plain = {} };
+                    },
+                    else => {},
+                }
+            },
+            else => {},
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    const T_SPECIAL = blk: {
+        var v = [_]bool{false} ** 256;
+        for ("()<>@,;:\\\"/[]?=") |b| {
+            v[b] = true;
+        }
+        break :blk v;
+    };
+
+    fn parseValue(allocator: Allocator, value: []const u8) ![]const u8 {
+        if (value[0] != '"') {
+            return value;
+        }
+
+        // 1 to skip the opening quote
+        var value_pos: usize = 1;
+        var unescaped_len: usize = 0;
+        const last = value.len - 1;
+
+        while (value_pos < value.len) {
+            switch (value[value_pos]) {
+                '"' => break,
+                '\\' => {
+                    if (value_pos == last) {
+                        return error.Invalid;
+                    }
+                    const next = value[value_pos + 1];
+                    if (T_SPECIAL[next] == false) {
+                        return error.Invalid;
+                    }
+                    value_pos += 2;
+                },
+                else => value_pos += 1,
+            }
+            unescaped_len += 1;
+        }
+
+        if (unescaped_len == 0) {
+            return error.Invalid;
+        }
+
+        value_pos = 1;
+        const owned = try allocator.alloc(u8, unescaped_len);
+        for (0..unescaped_len) |i| {
+            switch (value[value_pos]) {
+                '"' => break,
+                '\\' => {
+                    owned[i] = value[value_pos + 1];
+                    value_pos += 2;
+                },
+                else => |c| {
+                    owned[i] = c;
+                    value_pos += 1;
+                },
+            }
+        }
+        return owned;
+    }
+
+    const VALID_CODEPOINTS = blk: {
+        var v: [256]bool = undefined;
+        for (0..256) |i| {
+            v[i] = std.ascii.isAlphanumeric(i);
+        }
+        for ("!#$%&\\*+-.^'_`|~") |b| {
+            v[b] = true;
+        }
+        break :blk v;
+    };
+
+    fn validType(value: []const u8) bool {
+        for (value) |b| {
+            if (VALID_CODEPOINTS[b] == false) {
+                return false;
+            }
+        }
+        return true;
+    }
+
+    fn trim(s: []const u8) []const u8 {
+        return std.mem.trim(u8, s, &std.ascii.whitespace);
+    }
+
+    fn trimLeft(s: []const u8) []const u8 {
+        return std.mem.trimLeft(u8, s, &std.ascii.whitespace);
+    }
+
+    fn trimRight(s: []const u8) []const u8 {
+        return std.mem.trimRight(u8, s, &std.ascii.whitespace);
+    }
+
+    fn isCaseEqual(comptime target: anytype, value: []const u8) bool {
+        // - 8 beause we don't care about the sentinel
+        const bit_len = @bitSizeOf(@TypeOf(target.*)) - 8;
+        const byte_len = bit_len / 8;
+
+        const T = @Type(.{ .Int = .{
+            .bits = bit_len,
+            .signedness = .unsigned,
+        } });
+
+        const bit_target: T = @bitCast(@as(*const [byte_len]u8, target).*);
+
+        if (@as(T, @bitCast(value[0..byte_len].*)) == bit_target) {
+            return true;
+        }
+        return std.ascii.eqlIgnoreCase(value, target);
+    }
 };
 
-mtype: []const u8,
-msubtype: []const u8,
-params: []const u8 = "",
-
-charset: ?[]const u8 = null,
-boundary: ?[]const u8 = null,
-
-pub const Empty = Self{ .mtype = "", .msubtype = "" };
-pub const HTML = Self{ .mtype = "text", .msubtype = "html" };
-pub const Javascript = Self{ .mtype = "application", .msubtype = "javascript" };
-
-// https://mimesniff.spec.whatwg.org/#http-token-code-point
-fn isHTTPCodePoint(c: u8) bool {
-    return switch (c) {
-        '!', '#', '$', '%', '&', '\'', '*', '+', '-', '.', '^' => return true,
-        '_', '`', '|', '~' => return true,
-        else => std.ascii.isAlphanumeric(c),
-    };
-}
-
-fn valid(s: []const u8) bool {
-    const ln = s.len;
-    var i: usize = 0;
-    while (i < ln) {
-        if (!isHTTPCodePoint(s[i])) return false;
-        i += 1;
-    }
-    return true;
-}
-
-// https://mimesniff.spec.whatwg.org/#parsing-a-mime-type
-pub fn parse(s: []const u8) Self.MimeError!Self {
-    const ln = s.len;
-    if (ln == 0) return MimeError.Empty;
-    // limit input size
-    if (ln > 255) return MimeError.TooBig;
-
-    var res = Self{ .mtype = "", .msubtype = "" };
-    var r = Reader{ .data = s };
-
-    res.mtype = trim(r.until('/'));
-    if (res.mtype.len == 0) return MimeError.Invalid;
-    if (!valid(res.mtype)) return MimeError.InvalidChar;
-
-    if (!r.skip()) return MimeError.Invalid;
-    res.msubtype = trim(r.until(';'));
-    if (res.msubtype.len == 0) return MimeError.Invalid;
-    if (!valid(res.msubtype)) return MimeError.InvalidChar;
-
-    if (!r.skip()) return res;
-    res.params = trim(r.tail());
-    if (res.params.len == 0) return MimeError.Invalid;
-
-    // parse well known parameters.
-    // don't check invalid parameter format.
-    var rp = Reader{ .data = res.params };
-    while (true) {
-        const name = trim(rp.until('='));
-        if (!rp.skip()) return res;
-        const value = trim(rp.until(';'));
-
-        if (std.ascii.eqlIgnoreCase(name, "charset")) {
-            res.charset = value;
-        }
-        if (std.ascii.eqlIgnoreCase(name, "boundary")) {
-            res.boundary = value;
-        }
-
-        if (!rp.skip()) return res;
-    }
-
-    return res;
-}
-
-fn trim(s: []const u8) []const u8 {
-    return std.mem.trim(u8, s, &std.ascii.whitespace);
-}
-
-test "parse valid" {
-    for ([_][]const u8{
-        "text/html",
-        " \ttext/html",
-        "text \t/html",
-        "text/ \thtml",
-        "text/html \t",
-    }) |tc| {
-        const m = try Self.parse(tc);
-        try testing.expectEqualStrings("text", m.mtype);
-        try testing.expectEqualStrings("html", m.msubtype);
-    }
-    const m2 = try Self.parse("text/javascript1.5");
-    try testing.expectEqualStrings("text", m2.mtype);
-    try testing.expectEqualStrings("javascript1.5", m2.msubtype);
-
-    const m3 = try Self.parse("text/html; charset=utf-8");
-    try testing.expectEqualStrings("text", m3.mtype);
-    try testing.expectEqualStrings("html", m3.msubtype);
-    try testing.expectEqualStrings("charset=utf-8", m3.params);
-    try testing.expectEqualStrings("utf-8", m3.charset.?);
-
-    const m4 = try Self.parse("text/html; boundary=----");
-    try testing.expectEqualStrings("text", m4.mtype);
-    try testing.expectEqualStrings("html", m4.msubtype);
-    try testing.expectEqualStrings("boundary=----", m4.params);
-    try testing.expectEqualStrings("----", m4.boundary.?);
-}
-
-test "parse invalid" {
-    for ([_][]const u8{
+const testing = std.testing;
+test "Mime: invalid " {
+    const invalids = [_][]const u8{
         "",
-        "te xt/html;",
-        "te@xt/html;",
-        "text/ht@ml;",
-        "text/html;",
-        "/text/html",
-        "/html",
-    }) |tc| {
-        _ = Self.parse(tc) catch continue;
-        try testing.expect(false);
+        "text",
+        "text /html",
+        "text/ html",
+        "text / html",
+        "text/html other",
+        "text/html; x",
+        "text/html; x=",
+        "text/html; x=  ",
+        "text/html; = ",
+        "text/html;=",
+        "text/html; charset=\"\"",
+        "text/html; charset=\"",
+        "text/html; charset=\"\\",
+        "text/html; charset=\"\\a\"", // invalid to escape non special characters
+    };
+
+    for (invalids) |invalid| {
+        try testing.expectError(error.Invalid, Mime.parse(undefined, invalid));
     }
 }
 
-// Compare type and subtype.
-pub fn eql(self: Self, b: Self) bool {
-    if (!std.mem.eql(u8, self.mtype, b.mtype)) return false;
-    return std.mem.eql(u8, self.msubtype, b.msubtype);
+test "Mime: parse common" {
+    try expect(.{ .content_type = .{ .text_xml = {} } }, "text/xml");
+    try expect(.{ .content_type = .{ .text_html = {} } }, "text/html");
+    try expect(.{ .content_type = .{ .text_plain = {} } }, "text/plain");
+
+    try expect(.{ .content_type = .{ .text_xml = {} } }, "text/xml;");
+    try expect(.{ .content_type = .{ .text_html = {} } }, "text/html;");
+    try expect(.{ .content_type = .{ .text_plain = {} } }, "text/plain;");
+
+    try expect(.{ .content_type = .{ .text_xml = {} } }, "  \ttext/xml");
+    try expect(.{ .content_type = .{ .text_html = {} } }, "text/html   ");
+    try expect(.{ .content_type = .{ .text_plain = {} } }, "text/plain \t\t");
+
+    try expect(.{ .content_type = .{ .text_xml = {} } }, "TEXT/xml");
+    try expect(.{ .content_type = .{ .text_html = {} } }, "text/Html");
+    try expect(.{ .content_type = .{ .text_plain = {} } }, "TEXT/PLAIN");
+
+    try expect(.{ .content_type = .{ .text_xml = {} } }, " TeXT/xml");
+    try expect(.{ .content_type = .{ .text_html = {} } }, "teXt/HtML  ;");
+    try expect(.{ .content_type = .{ .text_plain = {} } }, "tExT/PlAiN;");
+}
+
+test "Mime: parse uncommon" {
+    const text_javascript = Expectation{
+        .content_type = .{ .other = .{ .type = "text", .sub_type = "javascript" } },
+    };
+    try expect(text_javascript, "text/javascript");
+    try expect(text_javascript, "text/javascript;");
+    try expect(text_javascript, "  text/javascript\t  ");
+    try expect(text_javascript, "  text/javascript\t  ;");
+
+    try expect(
+        .{ .content_type = .{ .other = .{ .type = "Text", .sub_type = "Javascript" } } },
+        "Text/Javascript",
+    );
+}
+
+test "Mime: parse charset" {
+    try expect(.{
+        .content_type = .{ .text_xml = {} },
+        .charset = "utf-8",
+        .params = "charset=utf-8",
+    }, "text/xml; charset=utf-8");
+
+    try expect(.{
+        .content_type = .{ .text_xml = {} },
+        .charset = "utf-8",
+        .params = "charset=\"utf-8\"",
+    }, "text/xml;charset=\"utf-8\"");
+
+    try expect(.{
+        .content_type = .{ .text_xml = {} },
+        .charset = "\\ \" ",
+        .params = "charset=\"\\\\ \\\" \"",
+    }, "text/xml;charset=\"\\\\ \\\" \"   ");
+}
+
+test "Mime: isHTML" {
+    const isHTML = struct {
+        fn isHTML(expected: bool, input: []const u8) !void {
+            var mime = try Mime.parse(testing.allocator, input);
+            defer mime.deinit();
+            try testing.expectEqual(expected, mime.isHTML());
+        }
+    }.isHTML;
+    try isHTML(true, "text/html");
+    try isHTML(true, "text/html;");
+    try isHTML(true, "text/html; charset=utf-8");
+    try isHTML(false, "text/htm"); // htm not html
+    try isHTML(false, "text/plain");
+    try isHTML(false, "over/9000");
+}
+
+const Expectation = struct {
+    content_type: Mime.ContentType,
+    params: []const u8 = "",
+    charset: ?[]const u8 = null,
+};
+
+fn expect(expected: Expectation, input: []const u8) !void {
+    var actual = try Mime.parse(testing.allocator, input);
+    defer actual.deinit();
+
+    try testing.expectEqual(
+        std.meta.activeTag(expected.content_type),
+        std.meta.activeTag(actual.content_type),
+    );
+
+    switch (expected.content_type) {
+        .other => |e| {
+            const a = actual.content_type.other;
+            try testing.expectEqualStrings(e.type, a.type);
+            try testing.expectEqualStrings(e.sub_type, a.sub_type);
+        },
+        else => {}, // already asserted above
+    }
+
+    try testing.expectEqualStrings(expected.params, actual.params);
+
+    if (expected.charset) |ec| {
+        try testing.expectEqualStrings(ec, actual.charset.?);
+    } else {
+        try testing.expectEqual(null, actual.charset);
+    }
 }
diff --git a/src/str/parser.zig b/src/str/parser.zig
index f663c4d5..55b6bb32 100644
--- a/src/str/parser.zig
+++ b/src/str/parser.zig
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ pub const Reader = struct {
     pub fn tail(self: *Reader) []const u8 {
         const pos = self.pos;
         const data = self.data;
-        if (pos > data.len)  {
+        if (pos > data.len) {
             return "";
         }
         self.pos = data.len;
diff --git a/src/xhr/xhr.zig b/src/xhr/xhr.zig
index 77131577..2ad2bc26 100644
--- a/src/xhr/xhr.zig
+++ b/src/xhr/xhr.zig
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ const DOMException = @import("../dom/exceptions.zig").DOMException;
 const ProgressEvent = @import("progress_event.zig").ProgressEvent;
 const XMLHttpRequestEventTarget = @import("event_target.zig").XMLHttpRequestEventTarget;
 
-const Mime = @import("../browser/mime.zig");
+const Mime = @import("../browser/mime.zig").Mime;
 
 const Loop = jsruntime.Loop;
 const Client = @import("asyncio").Client;
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ pub const XMLHttpRequest = struct {
     // https://lightpanda.slack.com/archives/C05TRU6RBM1/p1707819010681019
     // response_override_mime_type: ?[]const u8 = null,
 
-    response_mime: Mime = undefined,
+    response_mime: ?Mime = null,
     response_obj: ?ResponseObj = null,
     send_flag: bool = false,
 
@@ -313,8 +313,11 @@ pub const XMLHttpRequest = struct {
         if (self.response_obj) |v| v.deinit();
 
         self.response_obj = null;
-        self.response_mime = Mime.Empty;
         self.response_type = .Empty;
+        if (self.response_mime) |*mime| {
+            mime.deinit();
+            self.response_mime = null;
+        }
 
         // TODO should we clearRetainingCapacity instead?
         self.headers.clearAndFree();
@@ -336,6 +339,9 @@ pub const XMLHttpRequest = struct {
         self.reset();
         self.headers.deinit();
         self.response_headers.deinit();
+        if (self.response_mime) |*mime| {
+            mime.deinit();
+        }
 
         self.proto.deinit(alloc);
     }
@@ -544,7 +550,7 @@ pub const XMLHttpRequest = struct {
 
         // extract a mime type from headers.
         const ct = self.response_headers.getFirstValue("Content-Type") orelse "text/xml";
-        self.response_mime = Mime.parse(ct) catch |e| return self.onErr(e);
+        self.response_mime = Mime.parse(self.alloc, ct) catch |e| return self.onErr(e);
 
         // TODO handle override mime type
 
@@ -820,13 +826,14 @@ pub const XMLHttpRequest = struct {
     // TODO parse XML.
     // https://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/#response-object
     fn setResponseObjDocument(self: *XMLHttpRequest, alloc: std.mem.Allocator) void {
-        const isHTML = self.response_mime.eql(Mime.HTML);
+        const response_mime = &self.response_mime.?;
+        const isHTML = response_mime.isHTML();
 
         // TODO If finalMIME is not an HTML MIME type or an XML MIME type, then
         // return.
         if (!isHTML) return;
 
-        const ccharset = alloc.dupeZ(u8, self.response_mime.charset orelse "utf-8") catch {
+        const ccharset = alloc.dupeZ(u8, response_mime.charset orelse "utf-8") catch {
             self.response_obj = .{ .Failure = true };
             return;
         };