diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 531c24c..4a45cfe 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ Changelog
 1.1 (unreleased)
 ----------------
 
-**Backward incompatible changes.**
+Various improvements.
+Contains **backward incompatible changes.**
 
 - Added HTTPDownloadView to proxy to arbitrary URL.
 
diff --git a/demo/demoproject/download/views.py b/demo/demoproject/download/views.py
index f4f7eab..65075bc 100644
--- a/demo/demoproject/download/views.py
+++ b/demo/demoproject/download/views.py
@@ -76,4 +76,4 @@ download_generated_hello_world = StringIODownloadView.as_view()
 
 download_http_hello_world = views.HTTPDownloadView.as_view(
     url=u'https://raw.github.com/benoitbryon/django-downloadview/master/demo/demoproject/download/fixtures/hello-world.txt',
-    name=u'hello-world.txt')
+    basename=u'hello-world.txt')
diff --git a/django_downloadview/views.py b/django_downloadview/views.py
index fc70e24..b5ff51e 100644
--- a/django_downloadview/views.py
+++ b/django_downloadview/views.py
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ from django.views.generic.base import View
 from django.views.generic.detail import BaseDetailView
 from django.views.static import was_modified_since
 
+import requests
+
 from django_downloadview import files
 from django_downloadview.response import DownloadResponse
 
@@ -134,18 +136,30 @@ class VirtualDownloadView(BaseDownloadView):
 
 class HTTPDownloadView(BaseDownloadView):
     """Proxy files that live on remote servers."""
+    #: URL to download (the one we are proxying).
     url = u''
+
+    #: Additional keyword arguments for request handler.
     request_kwargs = {}
-    name = u''
+
+    def get_request_factory(self):
+        """Return request factory to perform actual HTTP request."""
+        return requests.get
+
+    def get_request_kwargs(self):
+        """Return keyword arguments for use with request factory."""
+        return self.request_kwargs
 
     def get_url(self):
+        """Return remote file URL (the one we are proxying)."""
         return self.url
 
     def get_file(self):
         """Return wrapper which has an ``url`` attribute."""
-        url = self.get_url()
-        request_kwargs = self.request_kwargs
-        return files.HTTPFile(name=self.name, url=url, **request_kwargs)
+        return files.HTTPFile(request_factory=self.get_request_factory(),
+                              name=self.get_basename(),
+                              url=self.get_url(),
+                              **self.get_request_kwargs())
 
 
 class ObjectDownloadView(DownloadMixin, BaseDetailView):
diff --git a/etc/buildout.cfg b/etc/buildout.cfg
index b5f8549..f53ba12 100644
--- a/etc/buildout.cfg
+++ b/etc/buildout.cfg
@@ -56,21 +56,22 @@ eggs = zest.releaser
 recipe = evg.recipe.activate
 
 [versions]
-Django = 1.5
-Jinja2 = 2.6
-Pygments = 1.6
-Sphinx = 1.1.3
 bpython = 0.10.1
 buildout-versions = 1.7
 coverage = 3.6
 distribute = 0.6.34
+Django = 1.5
+django-nose = 1.1
 docutils = 0.10
+Jinja2 = 2.6
 nose = 1.2.1
+Pygments = 1.6
 python-termstyle = 0.1.9
 rednose = 0.3
+requests = 1.2.0
+Sphinx = 1.1.3
 sphinxcontrib-testbuild = 0.1.1
+zc.recipe.egg = 1.3.2
 z3c.recipe.mkdir = 0.5
 z3c.recipe.scripts = 1.0.1
-zc.recipe.egg = 1.3.2
 zest.releaser = 3.43
-django-nose = 1.1