diff --git a/src/main/java/hu/rxd/toolbox/switcher/ExplicitHttpMirrors.java b/src/main/java/hu/rxd/toolbox/switcher/ExplicitHttpMirrors.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..75aaaf5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/java/hu/rxd/toolbox/switcher/ExplicitHttpMirrors.java
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package hu.rxd.toolbox.switcher;
+
+import java.net.URL;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.regex.Matcher;
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
+
+public class ExplicitHttpMirrors implements Mirrors {
+
+  @Override
+  public String getComponentVersion(Version version, Component c) {
+    return version.getVerStr();
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public String decodeStackVersion(String url) {
+    //    http://ci.hive.apache.org/job/hive-nightly/4/artifact/archive/apache-hive-4.0.0-nightly-dd23fa9147-20220210_160351-bin.tar.gz
+    //FIXME: possibly generalize later
+    Pattern pat = Pattern.compile("http.*/apache-hive-(.*)-bin\\.tar\\.gz");
+    Matcher m = pat.matcher(url);
+    if (!m.matches()) {
+      throw new RuntimeException("unsupported url: " + url);
+    }
+    return m.group(1);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public Collection<Mirror> of0(Version ver) {
+    List<Mirror> ret = new ArrayList<Mirror>();
+    ret.add(new ExplicitMirror(ver.getUrl()));
+    return ret;
+  }
+
+  static class ExplicitMirror implements Mirror {
+
+    private String root;
+
+    public ExplicitMirror(String root) {
+      this.root = root;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public URL getFor(Component c, String componentVersion) throws Exception {
+      return new URL(root);
+    }
+  }
+
+}
diff --git a/src/main/java/hu/rxd/toolbox/switcher/Version.java b/src/main/java/hu/rxd/toolbox/switcher/Version.java
index 2fb6ef2..62e71d6 100644
--- a/src/main/java/hu/rxd/toolbox/switcher/Version.java
+++ b/src/main/java/hu/rxd/toolbox/switcher/Version.java
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@
 public class Version {
 
   public enum Type {
-    APACHE(new ApacheMirrors()), HDP(new HdpMirrors()), DEV(new DevMirrors()), CDP(new CDPMirrors());
+    APACHE(new ApacheMirrors()), HDP(new HdpMirrors()), DEV(new DevMirrors()), CDP(new CDPMirrors()), HTTP(
+        new ExplicitHttpMirrors());
 
     public Mirrors mirrors;
 
@@ -21,8 +22,11 @@ public Mirrors getMirrors() {
   }
 
   Version.Type type;
+  /** Full versionStr; 3.1.2.7.1.2.2-11  */
   private String versionStr;
+  /** stackVersion; 7.1.2.2-11 - for 3.1.2.7.1.2.2-11 */
   String stackVersion;
+  private String url;
 
   public Version(String versionStr) {
     this.versionStr = versionStr;
@@ -34,6 +38,11 @@ public Version(String versionStr) {
     } else if (versionStr.startsWith("CDP")) {
       this.type = Type.CDP;
       this.stackVersion = type.mirrors.decodeStackVersion(versionStr.substring(4));
+    } else if (versionStr.startsWith("http")) {
+      this.type = Type.HTTP;
+      this.url = versionStr;
+      // FIXME: ugly
+      this.versionStr = type.mirrors.decodeStackVersion(versionStr);
     } else {
       this.type = Type.APACHE;
     }
@@ -49,13 +58,17 @@ public String getComponentVersion(Component c) throws Exception {
   static Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Version.class);
 
   /** Supposed to be the qualified version string
-   * 
+   *
    * probably something like HDP-3.1
    */
   public String getVerStr() {
     return versionStr;
   }
 
+  public String getUrl() {
+    return url;
+  }
+
   @Override
   public String toString() {
     return versionStr;