diff --git a/actix-http/src/header/mod.rs b/actix-http/src/header/mod.rs
index 9017f15aa..2b8678edc 100644
--- a/actix-http/src/header/mod.rs
+++ b/actix-http/src/header/mod.rs
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ use crate::HttpMessage;
 mod as_name;
 mod into_pair;
 mod into_value;
+mod utils;
 
 pub(crate) mod map;
 mod shared;
@@ -27,6 +28,7 @@ pub use self::into_value::IntoHeaderValue;
 #[doc(hidden)]
 pub use self::map::GetAll;
 pub use self::map::HeaderMap;
+pub use self::utils::*;
 
 /// A trait for any object that already represents a valid header field and value.
 pub trait Header: IntoHeaderValue {
diff --git a/actix-http/src/header/shared/content_encoding.rs b/actix-http/src/header/shared/content_encoding.rs
index 51e65b5cf..b93d66101 100644
--- a/actix-http/src/header/shared/content_encoding.rs
+++ b/actix-http/src/header/shared/content_encoding.rs
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ use http::header::InvalidHeaderValue;
 
 use crate::{
     error::ParseError,
-    header::{self, Header, HeaderName, HeaderValue, IntoHeaderValue},
+    header::{self, from_one_raw_str, Header, HeaderName, HeaderValue, IntoHeaderValue},
     HttpMessage,
 };
 
@@ -101,14 +101,6 @@ impl Header for ContentEncoding {
     }
 
     fn parse<T: HttpMessage>(msg: &T) -> Result<Self, ParseError> {
-        let val = msg.headers().get(Self::name());
-
-        if let Some(line) = val {
-            let line = line.to_str().map_err(|_| ParseError::Header)?;
-            if !line.is_empty() {
-                return Self::from_str(line).or(Err(ParseError::Header));
-            }
-        }
-        Err(ParseError::Header)
+        from_one_raw_str(msg.headers().get(Self::name()))
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/http/header/utils.rs b/actix-http/src/header/utils.rs
similarity index 79%
rename from src/http/header/utils.rs
rename to actix-http/src/header/utils.rs
index a1258368c..5e9652380 100644
--- a/src/http/header/utils.rs
+++ b/actix-http/src/header/utils.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 use std::{fmt, str::FromStr};
 
 use super::HeaderValue;
-use crate::error::ParseError;
+use crate::{error::ParseError, header::HTTP_VALUE};
 
 /// Reads a comma-delimited raw header into a Vec.
 #[inline]
@@ -53,3 +53,10 @@ where
     }
     Ok(())
 }
+
+/// Percent encode a sequence of bytes with a character set defined in
+/// <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5987#section-3.2>
+pub fn http_percent_encode(f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>, bytes: &[u8]) -> fmt::Result {
+    let encoded = percent_encoding::percent_encode(bytes, HTTP_VALUE);
+    fmt::Display::fmt(&encoded, f)
+}
diff --git a/src/http/header/mod.rs b/src/http/header/mod.rs
index a77f0c352..1a2cca451 100644
--- a/src/http/header/mod.rs
+++ b/src/http/header/mod.rs
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ pub use self::if_range::IfRange;
 pub use self::if_unmodified_since::IfUnmodifiedSince;
 pub use self::last_modified::LastModified;
 //pub use self::range::{Range, ByteRangeSpec};
-pub(crate) use self::utils::{fmt_comma_delimited, from_comma_delimited, from_one_raw_str};
+pub(crate) use actix_http::http::header::{fmt_comma_delimited, from_comma_delimited, from_one_raw_str};
 
 #[doc(hidden)]
 #[macro_export]
@@ -353,4 +353,3 @@ mod if_none_match;
 mod if_range;
 mod if_unmodified_since;
 mod last_modified;
-mod utils;