diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index ad88b42d..7ea6ab64 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -73,4 +73,4 @@ Contribute
 #. Send a pull request and bug the maintainer until it gets merged and published. :) Make sure to add yourself to AUTHORS_.
 
 .. _`the repository`: http://github.com/kennethreitz/requests
-.. _AUTHORS: http://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/blob/master/AUTHORS
+.. _AUTHORS: https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/blob/develop/AUTHORS.rst
diff --git a/requests/models.py b/requests/models.py
index d301a001..ac1a9e2f 100644
--- a/requests/models.py
+++ b/requests/models.py
@@ -800,6 +800,12 @@ class Response(object):
         # Decode unicode from given encoding.
         try:
             content = str(self.content, encoding, errors='replace')
+        except LookupError:
+            # A LookupError is raised if the encoding was not found which could
+            # indicate a misspelling or similar mistake.
+            #
+            # So we try blindly encoding.
+            content = str(self.content, errors='replace')
         except (UnicodeError, TypeError):
             pass
 
diff --git a/requests/packages/oreos/monkeys.py b/requests/packages/oreos/monkeys.py
index 72ce68d3..2cf90163 100644
--- a/requests/packages/oreos/monkeys.py
+++ b/requests/packages/oreos/monkeys.py
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ class CookieError(Exception):
 #
 _RFC2965Forbidden = "[]:{}="
 _LegalChars       = ( string.ascii_letters + string.digits + 
-                      "!#$%&'*+-.^_`|~_" + _RFC2965Forbidden )
+                      "!#$%&'*+-.^_`|~_@" + _RFC2965Forbidden )
 _Translator       = {
     '\000' : '\\000',  '\001' : '\\001',  '\002' : '\\002',
     '\003' : '\\003',  '\004' : '\\004',  '\005' : '\\005',