diff --git a/papers/bibstruct.py b/papers/bibstruct.py
index 8b9f317..6b05ce6 100644
--- a/papers/bibstruct.py
+++ b/papers/bibstruct.py
@@ -67,16 +67,19 @@ def extract_docfile(bibdata, remove=False):
     citekey, entry = get_entry(bibdata)
 
     try:
-        field = entry.fields['file']
-        # Check if this is mendeley specific
-        for f in field.split(':'):
-            if len(f) > 0:
-                break
-        if remove:
-            entry.fields.pop('file')
-        # This is a hck for Mendeley. Make clean
-        if f[0] != '/':
-            f = '/' + f
-        return f
+        if 'file' in entry.fields:
+            field = entry.fields['file']
+            # Check if this is mendeley specific
+            for f in field.split(':'):
+                if len(f) > 0:
+                    break
+            if remove:
+                entry.fields.pop('file')
+            # This is a hck for Mendeley. Make clean
+            if f[0] != '/':
+                f = '/' + f
+            return f
+        if 'attachments' in entry.fields:
+            return entry.fields['attachments']
     except (KeyError, IndexError):
         return None
diff --git a/papers/commands/add_cmd.py b/papers/commands/add_cmd.py
index f35301d..6b80e83 100644
--- a/papers/commands/add_cmd.py
+++ b/papers/commands/add_cmd.py
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ def command(args):
         if copy_doc is None:
             copy_doc = config().import_copy
         if copy_doc:
-            docfile = rp.databroker.copy_doc(citekey, docfile) 
+            docfile = rp.databroker.copy_doc(citekey, docfile)
 
     # create the paper
 
diff --git a/papers/content.py b/papers/content.py
index 737653b..113614b 100644
--- a/papers/content.py
+++ b/papers/content.py
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 import os
 import subprocess
 import tempfile
+import shutil
+
+import urlparse
+import httplib
+import urllib2
+
 
     # files i/o
 
@@ -38,9 +44,34 @@ def write_file(filepath, data):
 
     # dealing with formatless content
 
+def content_type(path):
+    parsed = urlparse.urlparse(path)
+    if parsed.scheme == 'http':
+        return 'url'
+    else:
+        return 'file'
+
+def url_exists(url):
+    parsed = urlparse.urlparse(url)
+    conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(parsed.netloc)
+    conn.request('HEAD', parsed.path)
+    response = conn.getresponse()
+    conn.close()
+    return response.status == 200
+
+    
+def check_content(path):
+    if content_type(path) == 'url':
+        return url_exists(path)
+    else:
+        return check_file(path)
+
 def get_content(path):
     """Will be useful when we need to get content from url"""
-    return read_file(path)
+    if content_type(path) == 'url':
+        return urllib2.urlopen(path)
+    else:
+        return read_file(path)
 
 def move_content(source, target, overwrite = False):
     if source == target:
diff --git a/papers/filebroker.py b/papers/filebroker.py
index a723ab9..665e1cf 100644
--- a/papers/filebroker.py
+++ b/papers/filebroker.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import re
 import urlparse
 
 from .content import check_file, check_directory, read_file, write_file
+from .content import check_content, content_type, get_content
 
 def filter_filename(filename, ext):
     """ Return the filename without the extension if the extension matches ext.
@@ -140,6 +141,8 @@ class DocBroker(object):
                 docpath = os.path.join(self.docdir, parsed.netloc)
             else:
                 docpath = os.path.join(self.docdir, parsed.netloc, parsed.path[1:])
+        elif content_type(docpath) != 'file':
+            return docpath
         return os.path.normpath(os.path.abspath(docpath))
 
     def add_doc(self, citekey, source_path, overwrite=False):
@@ -151,13 +154,16 @@ class DocBroker(object):
             :return: the above location
         """
         full_source_path = self.real_docpath(source_path)
-        check_file(full_source_path)
+        check_content(full_source_path)
 
         target_path = '{}://{}'.format(self.scheme, citekey + os.path.splitext(source_path)[-1])
         full_target_path = self.real_docpath(target_path)
         if not overwrite and check_file(full_target_path, fail=False):
             raise IOError('{} file exists.'.format(full_target_path))
-        shutil.copy(full_source_path, full_target_path)
+        
+        doc_content = get_content(full_source_path)
+        with open(full_target_path, 'wb') as f:
+            f.write(doc_content.read())
 
         return target_path