diff --git a/pywb/rewrite/content_rewriter.py b/pywb/rewrite/content_rewriter.py
index a37281ae..ebf5c72b 100644
--- a/pywb/rewrite/content_rewriter.py
+++ b/pywb/rewrite/content_rewriter.py
@@ -348,6 +348,7 @@ class StreamingRewriter(object):
 # ============================================================================
 class RewriteInfo(object):
     TAG_REGEX = re.compile(b'^\s*\<')
+    TAG_REGEX2 = re.compile(b'^.*<\w+[\s>]')
     JSON_REGEX = re.compile(b'^\s*[{[][{"]')  # if it starts with this then highly likely not HTML
 
     JSONP_CONTAINS = ['callback=jQuery',
@@ -391,7 +392,7 @@ class RewriteInfo(object):
         text_type = self._resolve_text_type(orig_text_type)
         url = self.url_rewriter.wburl.url
 
-        if text_type in ('guess-text', 'guess-bin'):
+        if text_type in ('guess-text', 'guess-bin', 'guess-html'):
             text_type = None
 
         if text_type == 'js':
@@ -432,8 +433,8 @@ class RewriteInfo(object):
 
         # if html or no-content type, allow resolving on js, css,
         # or other templates
-        if text_type == 'guess-text':
-            if not is_js_or_css and mod not in ('if_', 'mp_', ''):
+        if text_type in ('guess-text', 'guess-html'):
+            if not is_js_or_css and mod not in ('if_', 'mp_', 'bn_', ''):
                 return None
 
         # if application/octet-stream binary, only resolve if in js/css content
@@ -449,6 +450,10 @@ class RewriteInfo(object):
         # check if doesn't start with a tag, then likely not html
         if self.TAG_REGEX.match(buff):
             return 'html'
+        # perform additional check to see if it has any html tags
+        elif text_type == 'guess-html' and not is_js_or_css:
+            if self.TAG_REGEX2.match(buff):
+                return 'html'
 
         if not is_js_or_css:
             return text_type
diff --git a/pywb/rewrite/default_rewriter.py b/pywb/rewrite/default_rewriter.py
index e2ce966f..82a9ebc3 100644
--- a/pywb/rewrite/default_rewriter.py
+++ b/pywb/rewrite/default_rewriter.py
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ class DefaultRewriter(BaseContentRewriter):
 
     rewrite_types = {
         # HTML
-        'text/html': 'html',
+        'text/html': 'guess-html',
         'application/xhtml': 'html',
         'application/xhtml+xml': 'html',
 
diff --git a/pywb/rewrite/test/test_content_rewriter.py b/pywb/rewrite/test/test_content_rewriter.py
index 385896e0..59068bc7 100644
--- a/pywb/rewrite/test/test_content_rewriter.py
+++ b/pywb/rewrite/test/test_content_rewriter.py
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ class TestContentRewriter(object):
 
         headers, gen, is_rw = self.rewrite_record(headers, content, ts='201701mp_')
 
-        assert is_rw
+        assert is_rw == False
         assert ('Content-Type', 'text/html; charset=utf-8') in headers.headers
         assert b''.join(gen).decode('utf-8') == exp
 
@@ -333,9 +333,19 @@ class TestContentRewriter(object):
 
         assert ('Content-Type', 'text/html; charset=utf-8') in headers.headers
 
-        assert is_rw == True
+        assert is_rw == False
         assert b''.join(gen) == content
 
+    def test_binary_wrong_content_type_html_rw(self):
+        headers = {'Content-Type': 'text/html; charset=utf-8'}
+        content = b'Hello <a href="/foo.html">link</a>'
+        headers, gen, is_rw = self.rewrite_record(headers, content, ts='201701mp_')
+
+        assert ('Content-Type', 'text/html; charset=utf-8') in headers.headers
+
+        assert is_rw
+        assert b''.join(gen) == b'Hello <a href="/prefix/201701/http://example.com/foo.html">link</a>'
+
     def test_binary_wrong_content_type_css(self):
         headers = {'Content-Type': 'text/css; charset=utf-8'}
         content = b'\xe9\x11\x12\x13\x14'
diff --git a/pywb/rewrite/test/test_header_rewriter.py b/pywb/rewrite/test/test_header_rewriter.py
index 98870221..3755a842 100644
--- a/pywb/rewrite/test/test_header_rewriter.py
+++ b/pywb/rewrite/test/test_header_rewriter.py
@@ -43,15 +43,15 @@ class TestHeaderRewriter(object):
         res = """\
 HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\n\
 Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 03:03:21 GMT\r\n\
-Content-Length: 5\r\n\
+X-Archive-Orig-Content-Length: 5\r\n\
 Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8\r\n\
 """
         rwinfo = self.do_rewrite('200 OK', headers)
         http_headers = DefaultHeaderRewriter(rwinfo)()
         assert str(http_headers) == res
 
-        assert rwinfo.text_type == 'html'
-        assert rwinfo.charset == 'utf-8'
+        assert rwinfo.text_type == None
+        assert rwinfo.charset == None
 
     def test_header_rewrite_redirect(self):
         headers = [('Connection', 'close'),