diff --git a/warcbase-core/src/main/java/org/warcbase/data/WarcRecordUtils.java b/warcbase-core/src/main/java/org/warcbase/data/WarcRecordUtils.java
index 6a48538..c4c9c30 100644
--- a/warcbase-core/src/main/java/org/warcbase/data/WarcRecordUtils.java
+++ b/warcbase-core/src/main/java/org/warcbase/data/WarcRecordUtils.java
@@ -1,141 +1,146 @@
 /*
  * Warcbase: an open-source platform for managing web archives
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
  * You may obtain a copy of the License at
  *
  *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
  *
  * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
  * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
  * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
  * limitations under the License.
  */
 
 package org.warcbase.data;
 
 import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpParser;
 import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
 import org.archive.io.warc.WARCConstants;
 import org.archive.io.warc.WARCReader;
 import org.archive.io.warc.WARCReaderFactory;
 import org.archive.io.warc.WARCRecord;
 
 import java.io.*;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.regex.Matcher;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
 /**
  * Utilities for working with {@code WARCRecord}s (from archive.org APIs).
  */
 public class WarcRecordUtils implements WARCConstants {
   private static final Logger LOG = Logger.getLogger(WarcRecordUtils.class);
 
   // TODO: these methods work fine, but there's a lot of unnecessary buffer copying, which is
   // terrible from a performance perspective.
 
   /**
    * Converts raw bytes into an {@code WARCRecord}.
    *
    * @param bytes raw bytes
    * @return parsed {@code WARCRecord}
    * @throws IOException
    */
   public static WARCRecord fromBytes(byte[] bytes) throws IOException {
     WARCReader reader = (WARCReader) WARCReaderFactory.get("",
         new BufferedInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes)), false);
     return (WARCRecord) reader.get();
   }
 
   public static byte[] toBytes(WARCRecord record) throws IOException {
     ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
     DataOutputStream dout = new DataOutputStream(baos);
 
     dout.write("WARC/0.17\n".getBytes());
     for (Map.Entry<String, Object> entry : record.getHeader().getHeaderFields().entrySet()) {
       dout.write((entry.getKey() + ": " + entry.getValue().toString() + "\n").getBytes());
     }
     dout.write("\n".getBytes());
     record.dump(dout);
 
     return baos.toByteArray();
   }
 
   /**
    * Extracts the MIME type of WARC response records (i.e., "WARC-Type" is "response").
    * Note that this is different from the "Content-Type" in the WARC header.
    *
    * @param contents raw contents of the WARC response record
    * @return MIME type
    */
   public static String getWarcResponseMimeType(byte[] contents) {
     // This is a somewhat janky way to get the MIME type of the response.
     // Note that this is different from the "Content-Type" in the WARC header.
     Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("Content-Type: ([^\\s]+)", Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE);
     Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(new String(contents));
     if (matcher.find()) {
       return matcher.group(1).replaceAll(";$", "");
     }
 
     return null;
   }
 
   /**
    * Extracts raw contents from a {@code WARCRecord} (including HTTP headers).
    *
    * @param record the {@code WARCRecord}
    * @return raw contents
    * @throws IOException
    */
   public static byte[] getContent(WARCRecord record) throws IOException {
     int len = (int) record.getHeader().getContentLength();
 
+    // If we have a corrupt record, quit and move on.
+    if (len < 0) {
+      return new byte[0];
+    }
+
     ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
     DataOutputStream dout = new DataOutputStream(baos);
     copyStream(record, len, true, dout);
 
     return baos.toByteArray();
   }
 
   /**
    * Extracts contents of the body from a {@code WARCRecord} (excluding HTTP headers).
    *
    * @param record the {@code WARCRecord}
    * @return contents of the body
    * @throws IOException
    */
   public static byte[] getBodyContent(WARCRecord record) throws IOException {
     ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
     String line = HttpParser.readLine(record, WARC_HEADER_ENCODING);
     if (line == null) {
       return null;
     }
 
     // Just using parseHeaders to move down input stream to body
     HttpParser.parseHeaders(record, WARC_HEADER_ENCODING);
     record.dump(baos);
     return baos.toByteArray();
   }
 
   private static long copyStream(final InputStream is, final int recordLength,
       boolean enforceLength, final DataOutputStream out) throws IOException {
     byte [] scratchbuffer = new byte[recordLength];
     int read = 0;
     long tot = 0;
     while ((tot < recordLength) && (read = is.read(scratchbuffer)) != -1) {
       int write = read;
       // never write more than enforced length
       write = (int) Math.min(write, recordLength - tot);
       tot += read;
       out.write(scratchbuffer, 0, write);
     }
     if (enforceLength && tot != recordLength) {
       LOG.error("Read " + tot + " bytes but expected " + recordLength + " bytes. Continuing...");
     }
 
     return tot;
   }
 }