diff --git a/06-assets/assets/index.html b/06-assets/assets/index.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..28c8170
--- /dev/null
+++ b/06-assets/assets/index.html
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html>
+<head>
+    <title>Assets Example</title>
+    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://github.com/style.css">
+</head>
+<body>
+    <div class="container">
+        <h1>Assets Handling Example</h1>
+        <p>This demonstrates serving static content from a Python Worker.</p>
+        <img src="https://github.com/image.svg" alt="Example circle image" />
+    </div>
+    <script src="https://github.com/script.js"></script>
+</body>
+</html>
diff --git a/06-assets/src/worker.py b/06-assets/src/worker.py
index fd15f5a..a3d4533 100644
--- a/06-assets/src/worker.py
+++ b/06-assets/src/worker.py
@@ -1,30 +1,7 @@
-from workers import WorkerEntrypoint, Response
-from urllib.parse import urlparse
-
-INDEX_PAGE = """
-<!DOCTYPE html>
-<html>
-<head>
-    <title>Assets Example</title>
-    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://github.com/style.css">
-</head>
-<body>
-    <div class="container">
-        <h1>Assets Handling Example</h1>
-        <p>This demonstrates serving static content from a Python Worker.</p>
-        <img src="https://github.com/image.svg" alt="Example circle image" />
-    </div>
-    <script src="https://github.com/script.js"></script>
-</body>
-</html>
-"""
+from workers import WorkerEntrypoint
 
 
 class Default(WorkerEntrypoint):
     async def fetch(self, request):
         # Example of serving static assets
-        path = urlparse(request.url).path
-        if path in ["/", "/index.html"]:
-            return Response(INDEX_PAGE, headers={"Content-Type": "text/html"})
-
         return await self.env.ASSETS.fetch(request)
diff --git a/tests/test_examples.py b/tests/test_examples.py
index 700c127..163c8ca 100644
--- a/tests/test_examples.py
+++ b/tests/test_examples.py
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ def test_05_langchain(dev_server):
 def test_06_assets(dev_server):
     port = dev_server
     pairs = [
-        ("", "text/html"),
+        ("", "text/html; charset=utf-8"),
         ("image.svg", "image/svg+xml"),
         ("style.css", "text/css; charset=utf-8"),
         ("script.js", "text/javascript; charset=utf-8"),
