diff --git a/docs/formatdomain.html.in b/docs/formatdomain.html.in
index 9d1229334e..7df6042501 100644
--- a/docs/formatdomain.html.in
+++ b/docs/formatdomain.html.in
@@ -1501,6 +1501,14 @@
       <target dev='hdc' bus='ide' tray='open'/>
       <readonly/>
     </disk>
+    <disk type='network' device='cdrom'>
+      <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
+      <source protocol="http" name="url_path">
+        <host name="hostname" port="80"/>
+      </source>
+      <target dev='hdc' bus='ide' tray='open'/>
+      <readonly/>
+    </disk>
     <disk type='block' device='lun'>
       <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
       <source dev='/dev/sda'/>
diff --git a/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng b/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng
index b537feedbd..29ebd37c53 100644
--- a/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng
+++ b/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng
@@ -1211,6 +1211,7 @@
         <value>sheepdog</value>
         <value>gluster</value>
         <value>iscsi</value>
+        <value>http</value>
       </choice>
     </attribute>
     <optional>
diff --git a/src/conf/domain_conf.c b/src/conf/domain_conf.c
index 8a187a63d3..8a345e8e63 100644
--- a/src/conf/domain_conf.c
+++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.c
@@ -261,7 +261,8 @@ VIR_ENUM_IMPL(virDomainDiskProtocol, VIR_DOMAIN_DISK_PROTOCOL_LAST,
               "rbd",
               "sheepdog",
               "gluster",
-              "iscsi")
+              "iscsi",
+              "http")
 
 VIR_ENUM_IMPL(virDomainDiskProtocolTransport, VIR_DOMAIN_DISK_PROTO_TRANS_LAST,
               "tcp",
diff --git a/src/conf/domain_conf.h b/src/conf/domain_conf.h
index 500a5be9d8..77fa00cb0f 100644
--- a/src/conf/domain_conf.h
+++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.h
@@ -540,6 +540,7 @@ enum virDomainDiskProtocol {
     VIR_DOMAIN_DISK_PROTOCOL_SHEEPDOG,
     VIR_DOMAIN_DISK_PROTOCOL_GLUSTER,
     VIR_DOMAIN_DISK_PROTOCOL_ISCSI,
+    VIR_DOMAIN_DISK_PROTOCOL_HTTP,
 
     VIR_DOMAIN_DISK_PROTOCOL_LAST
 };
diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_command.c b/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
index b5ac15ad22..f2a9a9720b 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_command.c
@@ -3826,6 +3826,13 @@ qemuBuildDriveStr(virConnectPtr conn ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED,
                     virBufferEscape(&opt, ',', ",", "%s,", disk->src);
                 }
                 break;
+
+            case VIR_DOMAIN_DISK_PROTOCOL_HTTP:
+                virBufferAsprintf(&opt, "file=http://%s:%s",
+                                  disk->hosts->name,
+                                  disk->hosts->port ? disk->hosts->port : "80");
+                virBufferEscape(&opt, ',', ",", "%s,", disk->src);
+                break;
             }
         } else if (disk->type == VIR_DOMAIN_DISK_TYPE_VOLUME) {
             if (qemuBuildVolumeString(conn, disk, &opt) < 0)
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-cdrom-network-http.args b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-cdrom-network-http.args
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..97f5406eb0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-cdrom-network-http.args
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+LC_ALL=C PATH=/bin HOME=/home/test USER=test LOGNAME=test /usr/bin/kvm -S \
+-M pc-1.2 -m 1024 -smp 1 -nographic -nodefaults \
+-monitor unix:/tmp/test-monitor,server,nowait -boot d -usb \
+-drive file=http://host.name:80/url/path/file.iso,if=none,media=cdrom,id=drive-ide0-1-0 \
+-device ide-drive,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0 \
+-device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-cdrom-network-http.xml b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-cdrom-network-http.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8c9bc8af43
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-disk-cdrom-network-http.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+<domain type='kvm'>
+  <name>QEMUGuest1</name>
+  <uuid>c7a5fdbd-edaf-9455-926a-d65c16db1809</uuid>
+  <memory unit='KiB'>1048576</memory>
+  <currentMemory unit='KiB'>1048576</currentMemory>
+  <vcpu placement='static'>1</vcpu>
+  <os>
+    <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-1.2'>hvm</type>
+    <boot dev='cdrom'/>
+  </os>
+  <features>
+    <acpi/>
+    <apic/>
+    <pae/>
+  </features>
+  <clock offset='utc'/>
+  <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
+  <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
+  <on_crash>restart</on_crash>
+  <devices>
+    <emulator>/usr/bin/kvm</emulator>
+    <disk type='network' device='cdrom'>
+      <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
+      <source protocol='http' name='/url/path/file.iso'>
+        <host name='host.name' port='80'/>
+      </source>
+      <target dev='hdc' bus='ide'/>
+      <readonly/>
+      <alias name='ide0-1-0'/>
+      <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='1' target='0' unit='0'/>
+    </disk>
+    <controller type='usb' index='0'/>
+    <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root'/>
+    <controller type='ide' index='0'/>
+    <memballoon model='virtio'/>
+  </devices>
+</domain>
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c b/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c
index 99406b6cb8..79e144f463 100644
--- a/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c
@@ -443,6 +443,8 @@ mymain(void)
     DO_TEST("hugepages", QEMU_CAPS_MEM_PATH);
     DO_TEST("nosharepages", QEMU_CAPS_MACHINE_OPT, QEMU_CAPS_MEM_MERGE);
     DO_TEST("disk-cdrom", NONE);
+    DO_TEST("disk-cdrom-network-http", QEMU_CAPS_KVM, QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE,
+            QEMU_CAPS_DRIVE);
     DO_TEST("disk-cdrom-empty", QEMU_CAPS_DRIVE);
     DO_TEST("disk-cdrom-tray",
             QEMU_CAPS_DRIVE, QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE, QEMU_CAPS_VIRTIO_TX_ALG);