lib/PublicInbox/View.pm      | 28 +++++++++-------------------
 lib/PublicInbox/WwwStream.pm | 23 ++++++++---------------

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm
index 138e0c3a217d6173de7049c577fcc0ea72769594..895e4f278dfff8b76e1a1e5c5949cf42352c7364 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ use PublicInbox::MID qw(id_compress mids mids_for_index references
 			$MID_EXTRACT);
 use PublicInbox::MsgIter;
 use PublicInbox::Address;
-use PublicInbox::WwwStream;
+use PublicInbox::WwwStream qw(html_oneshot);
 use PublicInbox::Reply;
 use PublicInbox::ViewDiff qw(flush_diff);
 use PublicInbox::Eml;
@@ -45,25 +45,20 @@ 		$ctx->{smsg}; # may be undef
 	}
 }
 
-# /$INBOX/$MESSAGE_ID/ for unindexed v1 inboxes
-sub no_over_i {
+# /$INBOX/$MSGID/ for unindexed v1 inboxes
+sub no_over_html ($) {
 	my ($ctx) = @_;
-	my $eml = delete $ctx->{eml} or return;
+	my $bref = $ctx->{-inbox}->msg_by_mid($ctx->{mid}) or return; # 404
+	my $eml = PublicInbox::Eml->new($bref);
 	my $hdr = $eml->header_obj;
 	$ctx->{mhref} = '';
+	PublicInbox::WwwStream::init($ctx);
 	my $obuf = $ctx->{obuf} = _msg_page_prepare_obuf($hdr, $ctx);
 	multipart_text_as_html($eml, $ctx);
 	delete $ctx->{obuf};
 	$$obuf .= '</pre><hr>';
 	eval { $$obuf .= html_footer($ctx, $hdr) };
-	$$obuf
-}
-
-sub no_over_html ($) {
-	my ($ctx) = @_;
-	my $bref = $ctx->{-inbox}->msg_by_mid($ctx->{mid}) or return; # 404
-	$ctx->{eml} = PublicInbox::Eml->new($bref);
-	PublicInbox::WwwStream::response($ctx, 200, \&no_over_i);
+	html_oneshot($ctx, 200, $obuf);
 }
 
 # public functions: (unstable)
@@ -1169,12 +1164,6 @@ 	}
 	"<hr><pre>page: $next$prev</pre>";
 }
 
-sub index_nav { # callback for WwwStream::getline
-	my ($ctx) = @_;
-	return $ctx->html_top if exists $ctx->{-html_tip};
-	pagination_footer($ctx, '.')
-}
-
 sub paginate_recent ($$) {
 	my ($ctx, $lim) = @_;
 	my $t = $ctx->{qp}->{t} || '';
@@ -1223,7 +1212,8 @@ 	my $msgs = paginate_recent($ctx, 200); # 200 is our window
 	if (@$msgs) {
 		walk_thread(thread_results($ctx, $msgs), $ctx, \&acc_topic);
 	}
-	PublicInbox::WwwStream::response($ctx, dump_topics($ctx), \&index_nav);
+	html_oneshot($ctx, dump_topics($ctx), \pagination_footer($ctx, '.'));
+
 }
 
 sub thread_adj_level {
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/WwwStream.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/WwwStream.pm
index eecc27019da163d095d0c933b79b1fedf298d0af..7d257a191b0dda96558f969cc1b45d693f726942 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/WwwStream.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/WwwStream.pm
@@ -29,14 +29,6 @@ 	$ctx->{base_url} = base_url($ctx);
 	bless $ctx, __PACKAGE__;
 }
 
-sub response {
-	my ($ctx, $code, $cb) = @_;
-	my $res_hdr = [ 'Content-Type' => 'text/html; charset=UTF-8' ];
-	init($ctx, $cb);
-	$ctx->{gz} = PublicInbox::GzipFilter::gz_or_noop($res_hdr, $ctx->{env});
-	[ $code, $res_hdr, $ctx ]
-}
-
 sub async_eml { # ->{async_eml} for async_blob_cb
 	my ($ctx, $eml) = @_;
 	$ctx->{http_out}->write($ctx->translate($ctx->{cb}->($ctx, $eml)));
@@ -174,17 +166,18 @@ }
 
 sub html_oneshot ($$;$) {
 	my ($ctx, $code, $sref) = @_;
-	$ctx->{base_url} = base_url($ctx);
-	bless $ctx, __PACKAGE__;
-	my @bdy;
 	my $res_hdr = [ 'Content-Type' => 'text/html; charset=UTF-8',
 		'Content-Length' => undef ];
+	bless $ctx, __PACKAGE__;
 	$ctx->{gz} = PublicInbox::GzipFilter::gz_or_noop($res_hdr, $ctx->{env});
-	$ctx->zmore(html_top($ctx));
+	$ctx->{base_url} //= do {
+		$ctx->zmore(html_top($ctx));
+		base_url($ctx);
+	};
 	$ctx->zmore($$sref) if $sref;
-	$bdy[0] = $ctx->zflush(_html_end($ctx));
-	$res_hdr->[3] = bytes::length($bdy[0]);
-	[ $code, $res_hdr, \@bdy ]
+	my $bdy = $ctx->zflush(_html_end($ctx));
+	$res_hdr->[3] = bytes::length($bdy);
+	[ $code, $res_hdr, [ $bdy ] ]
 }
 
 sub async_next ($) {