diff --git a/zxingorg/web/index.jspx b/zxingorg/web/index.jspx
index 31ad9d1a9..bdc5974ec 100644
--- a/zxingorg/web/index.jspx
+++ b/zxingorg/web/index.jspx
@@ -15,13 +15,14 @@
  limitations under the License.
  -->
 <!-- Author: Sean Owen -->
-<jsp:root xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page" version="1.2">
-<jsp:directive.page contentType="application/xhtml+xml" session="false"/>
+<jsp:root xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page" version="2.2">
+<jsp:directive.page contentType="text/html" session="false"/>
 <jsp:scriptlet>response.setHeader("Cache-Control", "public");</jsp:scriptlet>
-<jsp:text><![CDATA[<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">]]></jsp:text>
-<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
+<jsp:text><![CDATA[<!DOCTYPE html>]]></jsp:text>
+<html>
   <head>
     <title>Redirect</title>
+    <meta charset="UTF-8"/>      
     <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0;url=w/decode.jspx"/>
   </head>
   <body>
