diff --git a/3rd_party_apps/sendfile/__init__.py b/3rd_party_apps/sendfile/__init__.py
deleted file mode 100644
index eea11a74d8..0000000000
--- a/3rd_party_apps/sendfile/__init__.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,59 +0,0 @@
-VERSION = (0, 1, 1)
-__version__ = '.'.join(map(str, VERSION))
-
-import os.path
-from mimetypes import guess_type
-
-from django.http import Http404
-
-def _lazy_load(fn):
-    _cached = []
-    def _decorated():
-        if not _cached:
-            _cached.append(fn())
-        return _cached[0]
-    return _decorated
-
-
-@_lazy_load
-def _get_sendfile():
-    from django.utils.importlib import import_module
-    from django.conf import settings
-    from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured
-
-    backend = getattr(settings, 'SENDFILE_BACKEND', None)
-    if not backend:
-        raise ImproperlyConfigured('You must specify a valued for SENDFILE_BACKEND')
-    module = import_module(backend)
-    return module.sendfile
-
-
-
-def sendfile(request, filename, attachment=False, attachment_filename=None):
-    '''
-    create a response to send file using backend configured in SENDFILE_BACKEND
-
-    if attachment is True the content-disposition header will be set with either
-    the filename given or else the attachment_filename (of specified).  This
-    will typically prompt the user to download the file, rather than view it.
-    '''
-    _sendfile = _get_sendfile()
-
-    if not os.path.exists(filename):
-        raise Http404('"%s" does not exist' % filename)
-
-    mimetype, encoding = guess_type(filename)
-    if mimetype is None:
-        mimetype = 'application/octet-stream'
-        
-    response = _sendfile(request, filename, mimetype=mimetype)
-    if attachment:
-        attachment_filename = attachment_filename or os.path.basename(filename)
-        response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename=%s' % attachment_filename
-
-    response['Content-length'] = os.path.getsize(filename)
-    response['Content-Type'] = mimetype
-    if encoding:
-        response['Content-Encoding'] = encoding
-
-    return response
diff --git a/3rd_party_apps/sendfile/backends/__init__.py b/3rd_party_apps/sendfile/backends/__init__.py
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29bb2..0000000000
diff --git a/3rd_party_apps/sendfile/backends/development.py b/3rd_party_apps/sendfile/backends/development.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 08a7dd0a42..0000000000
--- a/3rd_party_apps/sendfile/backends/development.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-from django.views.static import serve
-
-import os.path
-
-def sendfile(request, filename, **kwargs):
-    '''
-    Send file using django dev static file server.
-
-    DO NOT USE IN PRODUCTION
-    this is only to be used when developing and is provided
-    for convenience only
-    '''
-    dirname = os.path.dirname(filename)
-    basename = os.path.basename(filename)
-    return serve(request, basename, dirname)
diff --git a/3rd_party_apps/sendfile/backends/mod_wsgi.py b/3rd_party_apps/sendfile/backends/mod_wsgi.py
deleted file mode 100644
index b8bdfc58d1..0000000000
--- a/3rd_party_apps/sendfile/backends/mod_wsgi.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-from django.http import HttpResponse
-
-from django.conf import settings
-import os.path
-
-def _convert_file_to_url(filename):
-    # CURRENTLY NOT WORKING
-    # mod_wsgi wants a relative URL not a filename
-    # so apache does an internal redirect
-
-    relpath = os.path.relpath(filename, settings.SENDFILE_ROOT)
-    
-    url = [settings.SENDFILE_URL]
-
-    while relpath:
-        relpath, head = os.path.split(relpath)
-        url.insert(1, head)
-
-    return u''.join(url)
-
-def sendfile(request, filename, **kwargs):
-    response = HttpResponse()
-    response['Location'] = _convert_file_to_url(filename)
-    # need to destroy get_host() to stop django
-    # rewriting our location to include http, so that
-    # mod_wsgi is able to do the internal redirect
-    request.get_host = lambda: ''
-
-    return response
-
diff --git a/3rd_party_apps/sendfile/backends/simple.py b/3rd_party_apps/sendfile/backends/simple.py
deleted file mode 100644
index e74eeeb8b0..0000000000
--- a/3rd_party_apps/sendfile/backends/simple.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,56 +0,0 @@
-import os
-import stat
-import re
-from email.Utils import parsedate_tz, mktime_tz
-
-from django.core.files.base import File
-from django.http import HttpResponse, HttpResponseNotModified
-from django.utils.http import http_date
-
-def sendfile(request, filename, **kwargs):
-    # Respect the If-Modified-Since header.
-    statobj = os.stat(filename)
-    mimetype = kwargs.get('mimetype', 'application/octet-stream')
-
-    if not was_modified_since(request.META.get('HTTP_IF_MODIFIED_SINCE'),
-                              statobj[stat.ST_MTIME], statobj[stat.ST_SIZE]):
-        return HttpResponseNotModified(mimetype=mimetype)
-    
-    
-    response = HttpResponse(File(file(filename, 'rb')))
-
-    response["Last-Modified"] = http_date(statobj[stat.ST_MTIME])
-    return response
-    
-def was_modified_since(header=None, mtime=0, size=0):
-    """
-    Was something modified since the user last downloaded it?
-
-    header
-      This is the value of the If-Modified-Since header.  If this is None,
-      I'll just return True.
-
-    mtime
-      This is the modification time of the item we're talking about.
-
-    size
-      This is the size of the item we're talking about.
-    """
-    try:
-        if header is None:
-            raise ValueError
-        matches = re.match(r"^([^;]+)(; length=([0-9]+))?$", header,
-                           re.IGNORECASE)
-        header_date = parsedate_tz(matches.group(1))
-        if header_date is None:
-            raise ValueError
-        header_mtime = mktime_tz(header_date)
-        header_len = matches.group(3)
-        if header_len and int(header_len) != size:
-            raise ValueError
-        if mtime > header_mtime:
-            raise ValueError
-    except (AttributeError, ValueError, OverflowError):
-        return True
-    return False
-
diff --git a/3rd_party_apps/sendfile/backends/xsendfile.py b/3rd_party_apps/sendfile/backends/xsendfile.py
deleted file mode 100644
index b0f2720f60..0000000000
--- a/3rd_party_apps/sendfile/backends/xsendfile.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-from django.http import HttpResponse
-
-def sendfile(request, filename, **kwargs):
-    response = HttpResponse()
-    response['X-Sendfile'] = filename
-
-    return response
-
diff --git a/requirements/development.txt b/requirements/development.txt
index 92c0733dcf..fe228d3604 100644
--- a/requirements/development.txt
+++ b/requirements/development.txt
@@ -18,3 +18,4 @@ django-grappelli==2.3.3
 Pillow==1.7.4
 cssmin==0.1.4
 django-compressor==1.1
+-e git://github.com/rosarior/django-sendfile.git#egg=django-sendfile
diff --git a/requirements/production.txt b/requirements/production.txt
index e04e099d79..39948f87ba 100644
--- a/requirements/production.txt
+++ b/requirements/production.txt
@@ -15,3 +15,4 @@ django-grappelli==2.3.3
 Pillow==1.7.4
 cssmin==0.1.4
 django-compressor==1.1
+-e git://github.com/rosarior/django-sendfile.git#egg=django-sendfile