diff --git a/raven/conf/remote.py b/raven/conf/remote.py
index 7ba4cdfc..e462b0fc 100644
--- a/raven/conf/remote.py
+++ b/raven/conf/remote.py
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ class RemoteConfig(object):
         if not all([netloc, project, url.username, url.password]):
             raise InvalidDsn('Invalid Sentry DSN: %r' % url.geturl())
 
-        base_url = '%s://%s%s' % (url.scheme, netloc, path)
+        base_url = '%s://%s%s' % (url.scheme.rsplit('+', 1)[-1], netloc, path)
 
         return cls(
             base_url=base_url,
diff --git a/raven/transport/base.py b/raven/transport/base.py
index ed4e15d1..f3adb287 100644
--- a/raven/transport/base.py
+++ b/raven/transport/base.py
@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@ raven.transport.base
 """
 from __future__ import absolute_import
 
-from raven.transport.exceptions import InvalidScheme
-
 
 class Transport(object):
     """
@@ -24,10 +22,6 @@ class Transport(object):
     async = False
     scheme = []
 
-    def check_scheme(self, url):
-        if url.scheme not in self.scheme:
-            raise InvalidScheme()
-
     def send(self, data, headers):
         """
         You need to override this to do something with the actual
diff --git a/raven/transport/http.py b/raven/transport/http.py
index 10bb0af1..a2b968ba 100644
--- a/raven/transport/http.py
+++ b/raven/transport/http.py
@@ -20,8 +20,6 @@ class HTTPTransport(Transport):
 
     def __init__(self, parsed_url, timeout=defaults.TIMEOUT, verify_ssl=True,
                  ca_certs=defaults.CA_BUNDLE):
-        self.check_scheme(parsed_url)
-
         self._parsed_url = parsed_url
         self._url = parsed_url.geturl().rsplit('+', 1)[-1]
 
diff --git a/tests/transport/tests.py b/tests/transport/tests.py
index 2eba3b85..b0f03e58 100644
--- a/tests/transport/tests.py
+++ b/tests/transport/tests.py
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ class DummyScheme(Transport):
     scheme = ['mock']
 
     def __init__(self, parsed_url, timeout=5):
-        self.check_scheme(parsed_url)
         self._parsed_url = parsed_url
         self.timeout = timeout