diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 4d867fc..125cc9f 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 	<parent>
 		<groupId>org.scijava</groupId>
 		<artifactId>pom-scijava</artifactId>
-		<version>17.1.1</version>
+		<version>23.0.0</version>
 		<relativePath />
 	</parent>
 
@@ -98,7 +98,6 @@
 		<license.copyrightOwners>KNIME GmbH and Board of Regents of the University
 of Wisconsin-Madison.</license.copyrightOwners>
 
-		<scijava-common.version>2.65.0</scijava-common.version>
 		<okhttp.version>3.6.0</okhttp.version>
 
 		<!-- NB: Deploy releases to the ImageJ Maven repository. -->
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/scijava/io/http/HTTPLocation.java b/src/main/java/org/scijava/io/http/HTTPLocation.java
index 60ce067..664ae64 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/scijava/io/http/HTTPLocation.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/scijava/io/http/HTTPLocation.java
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 import java.net.URI;
 import java.net.URISyntaxException;
 import java.net.URL;
+import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Objects;
 
 import org.scijava.io.location.AbstractRemoteLocation;
@@ -136,4 +137,13 @@ public HttpUrl getHttpUrl() {
 	public URI getURI() {
 		return url.uri();
 	}
+
+	/**
+	 * @return the last path element
+	 */
+	@Override
+	public String getName() {
+		final List<String> segs = url.pathSegments();
+		return segs.get(segs.size() - 1);
+	}
 }
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/scijava/io/http/HTTPLocationResolver.java b/src/main/java/org/scijava/io/http/HTTPLocationResolver.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b2b5873
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/java/org/scijava/io/http/HTTPLocationResolver.java
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+
+package org.scijava.io.http;
+
+import java.net.URI;
+import java.net.URISyntaxException;
+
+import org.scijava.io.location.AbstractLocationResolver;
+import org.scijava.io.location.Location;
+import org.scijava.io.location.LocationResolver;
+import org.scijava.plugin.Plugin;
+
+@Plugin(type = LocationResolver.class)
+public class HTTPLocationResolver extends AbstractLocationResolver {
+
+	public HTTPLocationResolver() {
+		super("http", "https");
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public Location resolve(URI uri) throws URISyntaxException {
+			return new HTTPLocation(uri);
+	}
+}
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/scijava/io/http/HTTPLocationResolverTest.java b/src/test/java/org/scijava/io/http/HTTPLocationResolverTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2db5f7a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/java/org/scijava/io/http/HTTPLocationResolverTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+
+package org.scijava.io.http;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.net.URISyntaxException;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.scijava.Context;
+import org.scijava.io.handle.DataHandleService;
+import org.scijava.io.location.Location;
+import org.scijava.io.location.LocationService;
+
+public class HTTPLocationResolverTest {
+
+	final Context context = new Context();
+	final DataHandleService dataHandleService = context.service(
+		DataHandleService.class);
+	final LocationService resolver = context.service(LocationService.class);
+
+	/**
+	 * Tests the location creation with a file located on Github
+	 *
+	 * @throws URISyntaxException
+	 */
+	@Test
+	public void testDataHandleRemote() throws IOException, URISyntaxException {
+
+		String url =
+			"https://github.com/scijava/scijava-io-http/blob/master/src/test/resources/testfile?raw=true";
+		final Location loc = new HTTPLocation(url);
+		final Location locResolved = resolver.resolve(url);
+
+		assertEquals(loc, locResolved);
+	}
+}