diff --git a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/modules/network/RequestBodyUtil.java b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/modules/network/RequestBodyUtil.java
index 551382ca6..121d1971b 100644
--- a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/modules/network/RequestBodyUtil.java
+++ b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/modules/network/RequestBodyUtil.java
@@ -9,20 +9,22 @@
 
 package com.facebook.react.modules.network;
 
-import javax.annotation.Nullable;
-
+import android.content.Context;
+import android.net.Uri;
+import com.facebook.common.logging.FLog;
+import com.facebook.react.common.ReactConstants;
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileInputStream;
+import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.net.URL;
+import java.nio.channels.Channels;
+import java.nio.channels.ReadableByteChannel;
 import java.util.zip.GZIPOutputStream;
-
-import android.content.Context;
-import android.net.Uri;
-
-import com.facebook.common.logging.FLog;
-import com.facebook.react.common.ReactConstants;
-
+import javax.annotation.Nullable;
 import okhttp3.MediaType;
 import okhttp3.RequestBody;
 import okhttp3.internal.Util;
@@ -38,6 +40,8 @@ import okio.Source;
 /*package*/ class RequestBodyUtil {
 
   private static final String CONTENT_ENCODING_GZIP = "gzip";
+  private static final String NAME = "RequestBodyUtil";
+  private static final String TEMP_FILE_SUFFIX = "temp";
 
   /**
    * Returns whether encode type indicates the body needs to be gzip-ed.
@@ -55,6 +59,10 @@ import okio.Source;
       String fileContentUriStr) {
     try {
       Uri fileContentUri = Uri.parse(fileContentUriStr);
+
+      if (fileContentUri.getScheme().startsWith("http")) {
+        return getDownloadFileInputStream(context, fileContentUri);
+      }
       return context.getContentResolver().openInputStream(fileContentUri);
     } catch (Exception e) {
       FLog.e(
@@ -66,11 +74,37 @@ import okio.Source;
   }
 
   /**
-   * Creates a RequestBody from a mediaType and gzip-ed body string
+   * Download and cache a file locally. This should be used when document picker returns a URI that
+   * points to a file on the network. Returns input stream for the downloaded file.
    */
-  public static @Nullable RequestBody createGzip(
-      final MediaType mediaType,
-      final String body) {
+  private static InputStream getDownloadFileInputStream(Context context, Uri uri)
+      throws IOException {
+    final File outputDir = context.getApplicationContext().getCacheDir();
+    final File file = File.createTempFile(NAME, TEMP_FILE_SUFFIX, outputDir);
+    file.deleteOnExit();
+
+    final URL url = new URL(uri.toString());
+    final InputStream is = url.openStream();
+    try {
+      final ReadableByteChannel channel = Channels.newChannel(is);
+      try {
+        final FileOutputStream stream = new FileOutputStream(file);
+        try {
+          stream.getChannel().transferFrom(channel, 0, Long.MAX_VALUE);
+          return new FileInputStream(file);
+        } finally {
+          stream.close();
+        }
+      } finally {
+        channel.close();
+      }
+    } finally {
+      is.close();
+    }
+  }
+
+  /** Creates a RequestBody from a mediaType and gzip-ed body string */
+  public static @Nullable RequestBody createGzip(final MediaType mediaType, final String body) {
     ByteArrayOutputStream gzipByteArrayOutputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
     try {
       OutputStream gzipOutputStream = new GZIPOutputStream(gzipByteArrayOutputStream);