diff --git a/README.markdown b/README.markdown
index 32fbcc8..773a887 100644
--- a/README.markdown
+++ b/README.markdown
@@ -46,6 +46,20 @@ Dominik Moritz <dominik.moritz@okfn.org>. For the current list of contributors
 see [github.com/ckan/datapusher/contributors](https://github.com/ckan/datapusher/contributors)
 
 
+## Configuration Options
+
+- `HOST`: 
+- `PORT`:
+- `MAX_CONTENT_LENGTH`: (Default: 10485760)
+- `CHUNK_SIZE`: (Default: 16384)
+- `CHUNK_INSERT_ROWS`: (Default: 250)
+- `DOWNLOAD_TIMEOUT`: (Default: 30)
+- `EXTERNAL_STORAGE`: Add an option to exclude CKAN API which mitigates [this issue](https://github.com/ckan/datapusher/issues/116) (Default: False)
+- `SSL_VERIFY`: (Default: True)
+- `TYPE_MAPPING`:
+- `TYPES`:
+- `GET_ROW_SET`:
+
 ## Development
 
 To install DataPusher for development:
diff --git a/datapusher/jobs.py b/datapusher/jobs.py
index 3f6c309..5620059 100644
--- a/datapusher/jobs.py
+++ b/datapusher/jobs.py
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 CHUNK_SIZE = web.app.config.get('CHUNK_SIZE') or 16384
 CHUNK_INSERT_ROWS = web.app.config.get('CHUNK_INSERT_ROWS') or 250
 DOWNLOAD_TIMEOUT = web.app.config.get('DOWNLOAD_TIMEOUT') or 30
+EXTERNAL_STORAGE = web.app.config.get('EXTERNAL_STORAGE') or False
 
 if web.app.config.get('SSL_VERIFY') in ['False', 'FALSE', '0', False, 0]:
     SSL_VERIFY = False
@@ -359,7 +360,8 @@ def push_to_datastore(task_id, input, dry_run=False):
     if resource.get('url_type') == 'upload':
         # If this is an uploaded file to CKAN, authenticate the request,
         # otherwise we won't get file from private resources
-        headers['Authorization'] = api_key
+        if not EXTERNAL_STORAGE:
+            headers['Authorization'] = api_key
     try:
         response = requests.get(
             url,
diff --git a/deployment/datapusher_settings.py b/deployment/datapusher_settings.py
index 4bac651..9fe8171 100644
--- a/deployment/datapusher_settings.py
+++ b/deployment/datapusher_settings.py
@@ -24,3 +24,7 @@
 
 #LOG_FILE = '/tmp/ckan_service.log'
 STDERR = True
+
+# other
+
+#EXTERNAL_STORAGE = False
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