diff --git a/datapackage/config.py b/datapackage/config.py
index 951a8bb..875a0d7 100644
--- a/datapackage/config.py
+++ b/datapackage/config.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 
 # Module API
 
+REMOTE_SCHEMES = ['http', 'https', 'ftp', 'ftps', 's3']
 TABULAR_FORMATS = ['csv', 'tsv', 'xls', 'xlsx']
 DEFAULT_DATA_PACKAGE_PROFILE = 'data-package'
 DEFAULT_RESOURCE_PROFILE = 'data-resource'
diff --git a/datapackage/resource.py b/datapackage/resource.py
index 70a1696..7b7ff57 100644
--- a/datapackage/resource.py
+++ b/datapackage/resource.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 import requests
 from copy import deepcopy
 from tableschema import Table, Storage
-from six.moves.urllib.parse import urljoin
+from six.moves.urllib.parse import urljoin, urlparse
 from six.moves.urllib.request import urlopen
 from .profile import Profile
 from . import exceptions
@@ -489,11 +489,10 @@ def _inspect_source(data, path, base_path, storage):
     elif len(path) == 1:
 
         # Remote
-        # TODO: rebase on the approach `tableschema` uses with `config.REMOTE_SCHEMES
-        if path[0].startswith('http') or path[0].startswith('ftp') or path[0].startswith('s3'):
+        if urlparse(path[0]).scheme in config.REMOTE_SCHEMES:
             inspection['source'] = path[0]
             inspection['remote'] = True
-        elif base_path and base_path.startswith('http'):
+        elif base_path and urlparse(base_path).scheme in config.REMOTE_SCHEMES:
             norm_base_path = base_path if base_path.endswith('/') else base_path + '/'
             inspection['source'] = urljoin(norm_base_path, path[0])
             inspection['remote'] = True