diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 4d18a9df..da4a7ffb 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ for detailed view of each issue, please consult http://issues.apache.org/jira/br
 	Andreas Axelsson
 	Stephane Bailliez
 	Karl Baum
+	Andrew Bernhagen
 	Mikkel Bjerg
 	Per Arnold Blaasmo
 	Jeffrey Blattman
@@ -154,6 +155,7 @@ for detailed view of each issue, please consult http://issues.apache.org/jira/br
 - FIX: failed to resolve dynamic revisions in some cases for URL repositories (IVY-1472)
 - FIX: ClassCastException in Eclipse 4.4.1 (IVY-1487) (Thanks to Carsten Pfeiffer)
 - FIX: NullPointerException when accessing charset to invalid URL (IVY-1452) (Thanks to Frédéric Riviere)
+- FIX: Can't resolve wildcard dependencies when remote artifact server does not set content-type header (IVY-1493) (Thanks to Andrew Bernhagen)
 
    2.4.0-rc1
 =====================================
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/ivy/util/url/ApacheURLLister.java b/src/java/org/apache/ivy/util/url/ApacheURLLister.java
index 2df69b08..e2e7dea3 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/ivy/util/url/ApacheURLLister.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/ivy/util/url/ApacheURLLister.java
@@ -117,7 +117,12 @@ public class ApacheURLLister {
         String charset = urlInfo.getBodyCharset();
 
         InputStream contentStream = urlHandler.openStream(url);
-        BufferedReader r = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(contentStream, charset));
+        BufferedReader r = null;
+        if (charset == null) {
+            r = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(contentStream));
+        } else {
+            r = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(contentStream, charset));
+        }
 
         String htmlText = FileUtil.readEntirely(r);