diff --git a/lib/resolve/resolvers/UrlResolver.js b/lib/resolve/resolvers/UrlResolver.js
index 4b7baedf..42733c43 100644
--- a/lib/resolve/resolvers/UrlResolver.js
+++ b/lib/resolve/resolvers/UrlResolver.js
@@ -1,36 +1,204 @@
 var util = require('util');
+var path = require('path');
+var fs = require('fs');
+var request = require('request');
 var Q = require('q');
+var mout = require('mout');
 var Resolver = require('../Resolver');
+var extract = require('../../util/extract');
+var createError = require('../../util/createError');
 
 var UrlResolver = function (source, options) {
+    var pos;
+
     Resolver.call(this, source, options);
 
-    // TODO: if name was guessed, strip out the ?foo part
+    // If target was specified, error out
+    if (this._target !== '*') {
+        throw createError('URL sources can\'t resolve targets', 'ENORESTARGET');
+    }
+
+    // If the name was guessed, remove the ? part
+    if (this._guessedName) {
+        pos = this._name.indexOf('?');
+        if (pos !== -1) {
+            this._name = path.basename(this._name.substr(0, pos));
+        }
+    }
 };
 
 util.inherits(UrlResolver, Resolver);
 
 // -----------------
 
-UrlResolver.prototype.hasNew = function (oldResolution) {
-    // Store cache expiration headers in the resolution and compare them afterwards
-    Q.resolve(true);
+UrlResolver.prototype._hasNew = function (pkgMeta) {
+    var oldHeaders = pkgMeta._cacheHeaders || {};
+
+    // TODO: switch from HEAD request to normal + abort
+
+    // Make a HEAD request to the source
+    return Q.nfcall(request.head, this._source, {
+        proxy: this._config.proxy,
+        timeout: 5000
+    })
+    // Compare new headers with the old ones
+    .then(function (response) {
+        var headers = this._collectCacheHeaders(response);
+        return mout.object.equals(oldHeaders, headers);
+    }.bind(this), function () {
+        // Assume new contents if the request failed
+        return true;
+    });
 };
 
-UrlResolver.prototype._resolveSelf = function () {
-    // TODO: use file mimetypes instead of extensions!
+UrlResolver.prototype._resolve = function () {
+    // If target was specified, simply reject the promise
+    if (this._target !== '*') {
+        return Q.reject(createError('URL sources can\'t resolve targets', 'ENORESTARGET'));
+    }
+
     return this._download()
-    .then(this._extract.bind(this));
+    .then(this._parseHeaders.bind(this))
+    .then(this._extract.bind(this))
+    .then(this._rename.bind(this));
 };
 
 // -----------------
 
 UrlResolver.prototype._download = function () {
+    var file = path.join(this._tempDir, this._name),
+        deferred = Q.defer(),
+        req,
+        res,
+        writer,
+        finish;
 
+    finish = function (err) {
+        // Ensure that all listeners are removed
+        req.removeAllListeners();
+        writer.removeAllListeners();
+
+        // If we got an error, simply reject the deferred
+        if (err) {
+            return deferred.reject(err);
+        } else {
+            this._response = res;
+            return deferred.resolve([file, res]);
+        }
+    };
+
+    // Make the request to the source
+    req = request(this._source, {
+        proxy: this._config.proxy,
+        timeout: 5000
+    })
+    .on('response', function (response) {
+        res = response;
+    })
+    .on('error', finish);
+
+    // Create a write stream to the end file
+    writer = fs.createWriteStream(file)
+    .on('error', finish)
+    .on('close', finish);
+
+    // Pipe request response to writer
+    req.pipe(writer);
+
+    return deferred.promise;
 };
 
-UrlResolver.prototype._extract = function () {
+UrlResolver.prototype._parseHeaders = function (file, response) {
+    var disposition,
+        newFile,
+        matches;
 
+    // Check if we got a Content-Disposition header
+    disposition = response.get('Content-Disposition');
+    if (!disposition) {
+        return Q.resolve([file, response]);
+    }
+
+    // If so, extract the filename
+    matches = disposition.match(/filename="?(.+?)"?/i);
+    if (!matches) {
+        return Q.resolve([file, response]);
+    }
+
+    // Rename our downloaded file
+    newFile = path.join(this._tempDir, matches[1]);
+
+    return Q.nfcall(fs.rename, file, newFile)
+    .then(function () {
+        return [newFile, response];
+    });
 };
 
+UrlResolver.prototype._extract = function (file, response) {
+    var mimeType = response.getHeader('Content-Type');
+
+    if (!extract.canExtract(mimeType || file)) {
+        return Q.resolve();
+    }
+
+    return extract(file, this._tempDir, {
+        mimeType: mimeType
+    });
+};
+
+UrlResolver.prototype._rename = function () {
+    return Q.nfcall(fs.readdir, this._tempDir)
+    .then(function (files) {
+        var file,
+            oldPath,
+            newPath;
+
+        if (files.length === 1) {
+            file = files[0];
+            this._singleFile = 'index' + path.extname(file);
+            oldPath = path.join(this._tempDir, file);
+            newPath = path.join(this._tempDir, this._singleFile);
+
+            return Q.nfcall(fs.rename, oldPath, newPath);
+        }
+    }.bind(this));
+};
+
+UrlResolver.prototype._savePkgMeta = function (meta) {
+    // Store collected headers in the package meta
+    meta._cacheHeaders = this._collectCacheHeaders(this._response);
+
+    // Store main if is a single file
+    if (this._singleFile) {
+        meta.main = this._singleFile;
+    }
+
+    return Resolver.prototype._savePkgMeta.call(this, meta);
+};
+
+UrlResolver.prototype._collectCacheHeaders = function (res) {
+    var headers = {};
+
+    // Collect cache headers
+    this.constructor._cacheHeaders.forEach(function (name) {
+        var value = res.getHeader(name);
+
+        if (value != null) {
+            headers[name] = value;
+        }
+    });
+
+    return headers;
+};
+
+UrlResolver._cacheHeaders = [
+    'Content-MD5',
+    'ETag',
+    'Last-Modified',
+    'Content-Language',
+    'Content-Length',
+    'Content-Type',
+    'Content-Disposition'
+];
+
 module.exports = UrlResolver;
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diff --git a/test/resolve/resolvers/urlResolver.js b/test/resolve/resolvers/urlResolver.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4231117e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/resolve/resolvers/urlResolver.js
@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+var expect = require('expect.js');
+var path = require('path');
+var fs = require('fs');
+var path = require('path');
+var nock = require('nock');
+var cmd = require('../../../lib/util/cmd');
+var UrlResolver = require('../../../lib/resolve/resolvers/UrlResolver');
+
+describe('UrlResolver', function () {
+    var testPackage = path.resolve(__dirname, '../../assets/github-test-package');
+
+    before(function (next) {
+        // Checkout test package to version 0.2.1 which has a bower.json
+        // with ignores
+        cmd('git', ['checkout', '0.2.1'], { cwd: testPackage })
+        .then(next.bind(next, null), next);
+    });
+
+    afterEach(function () {
+        // Clean nocks
+        nock.cleanAll();
+    });
+
+    describe('.constructor', function () {
+        it('should guess the name from the URL', function () {
+            var resolver = new UrlResolver('http://somedomain.com/foo.txt');
+
+            expect(resolver.getName()).to.equal('foo.txt');
+        });
+
+        it('should remove ?part from the URL when guessing the name', function () {
+            var resolver = new UrlResolver('http://somedomain.com/foo.txt?bar');
+
+            expect(resolver.getName()).to.equal('foo.txt');
+        });
+
+        it('should not guess the name or remove ?part from the URL if not guessing', function () {
+            var resolver = new UrlResolver('http://somedomain.com/foo.txt?bar', {
+                name: 'baz'
+            });
+
+            expect(resolver.getName()).to.equal('baz');
+        });
+
+        it('should error out if a target was specified', function (next) {
+            var resolver;
+
+            try {
+                resolver = new UrlResolver(testPackage, {
+                    target: '0.0.1'
+                });
+            } catch (err) {
+                expect(err).to.be.an(Error);
+                expect(err.message).to.match(/can\'t resolve targets/i);
+                expect(err.code).to.equal('ENORESTARGET');
+                return next();
+            }
+
+            next(new Error('Should have thrown'));
+        });
+    });
+
+    describe('.hasNew', function () {
+        it.skip('should resolve to true if the server failed to respond');
+        it.skip('should resolve to true if cache headers changed');
+        it.skip('should resolve to false if cache headers haven\'t changed');
+        it.skip('should cancel the underlying request if resolved to false');
+    });
+
+    describe('.resolve', function () {
+        it.skip('should download contents');
+        it.skip('should extract if source is an archive', function (next) {
+            var resolver = new UrlResolver('http://somedomain.com/foo.txt');
+
+            resolver.resolve()
+            .then(function (dir) {
+                expect(fs.existsSync(path.join(dir, 'foo.js'))).to.be(true);
+                expect(fs.existsSync(path.join(dir, 'package-zip.zip'))).to.be(false);
+                next();
+            })
+            .done();
+        });
+        it.skip('should extract if response content-type is an archive');
+        it.skip('should extract if response content-disposition filename is an archive');
+
+        // TODO: copy other tests related with extraction from the FsResolver tests
+    });
+});
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