diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 499be7a..8d2e6c6 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -16,13 +16,17 @@ Common development tasks have been unified into single interface of npm scripts
 npm run upgrade-deps
 ```
 
-### Running the development server
+### Running a local development server
 
 ```bash
 npm run serve
 ```
 
-> You can also run the server in release mode with `npm run serve:release`, which will build the project as the production build.
+> Alternatively, you can run the server in release mode with `npm run serve:release`, which will build the project as in a production environment. This also allows to emulate Cloudflare R2 storage by adding files to a local database. For example:
+>
+> ```bash
+> npx wrangler r2 object put cv-documents/alejandro_fernandez_cv-en.pdf --local --file ~/Sync/Personal/CV/alejandro_fernandez_cv-en.pdf
+> ```
 
 ### Checking for linting errors
 
diff --git a/functions/r2/[[all]].js b/functions/r2/[[all]].js
index c2809df..58e0be1 100644
--- a/functions/r2/[[all]].js
+++ b/functions/r2/[[all]].js
@@ -4,6 +4,14 @@ function authorizeRequest(key) {
   return ALLOW_LIST.includes(key);
 }
 
+export async function onRequestHead(context) {
+  const path = new URL(context.request.url).pathname.replace("/r2/", "");
+
+  return authorizeRequest(path)
+    ? new Response(null, { status: 200 })
+    : new Response(null, { status: 404 });
+}
+
 export async function onRequestGet(context) {
   const path = new URL(context.request.url).pathname.replace("/r2/", "");
 
diff --git a/lib/repositories/storage_repository.dart b/lib/repositories/storage_repository.dart
index 893a016..6f0ab9e 100644
--- a/lib/repositories/storage_repository.dart
+++ b/lib/repositories/storage_repository.dart
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import 'package:flutter_riverpod/flutter_riverpod.dart';
-import 'package:http/http.dart' as http;
 import 'package:riverpod_annotation/riverpod_annotation.dart';
 
 part 'storage_repository.g.dart';
@@ -11,26 +10,12 @@ abstract interface class StorageRepository {
 class _R2CloudRepository implements StorageRepository {
   _R2CloudRepository();
 
-  final _client = http.Client();
-
   @override
-  Future<Uri> getUri(String fileName) async {
-    final uri = Uri.parse('/r2/$fileName');
-    if (!await isAvailable(uri)) throw Exception('File $fileName not found');
-    return uri;
-  }
-
-  Future<bool> isAvailable(Uri uri) async {
-    final response = await _client.head(uri);
-    return response.statusCode == 200;
-  }
-
-  void dispose() => _client.close();
+  Future<Uri> getUri(String fileName) async => Uri.parse('/r2/$fileName');
 }
 
 @riverpod
 StorageRepository storageRepository(Ref ref) {
   final repository = _R2CloudRepository();
-  ref.onDispose(repository.dispose);
   return repository;
 }
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index 5ebd7d0..83d0428 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "portfolio",
-  "version": "0.4.0",
+  "version": "0.5.0",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "portfolio",
-      "version": "0.4.0",
+      "version": "0.5.0",
       "license": "UNLICENSED",
       "dependencies": {
         "@tsconfig/node-lts": "^20.1.3",
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
         "esbuild": "^0.24.0",
         "fast-xml-parser": "^4.5.0",
         "tsx": "^4.19.2",
-        "wrangler": "^3.84.1"
+        "wrangler": "^3.85.0"
       },
       "devDependencies": {
         "@eslint/js": "^9.11.0",
@@ -1528,9 +1528,9 @@
       "license": "MIT"
     },
     "node_modules/cross-spawn": {
-      "version": "7.0.3",
-      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/cross-spawn/-/cross-spawn-7.0.3.tgz",
-      "integrity": "sha512-iRDPJKUPVEND7dHPO8rkbOnPpyDygcDFtWjpeWNCgy8WP2rXcxXL8TskReQl6OrB2G7+UJrags1q15Fudc7G6w==",
+      "version": "7.0.4",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/cross-spawn/-/cross-spawn-7.0.4.tgz",
+      "integrity": "sha512-9KdyVPPtLHjPAD7tcuzSFs64UfHlLJt7U6qP4/bFVLyjLceyizj6s6jO6YBaV5d0G7g/9KnY/dOpLR4Rcg8YDg==",
       "dev": true,
       "license": "MIT",
       "dependencies": {
@@ -4419,9 +4419,9 @@
       }
     },
     "node_modules/wrangler": {
-      "version": "3.84.1",
-      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/wrangler/-/wrangler-3.84.1.tgz",
-      "integrity": "sha512-w27/QpIk2qz6aMIVi9T8cDcXMvh/RXjcL+vf4o5J2GpQAE4U7wTCNHyaY9H3oTJWRN97KqCAEbiHBNtTKoUJEw==",
+      "version": "3.85.0",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/wrangler/-/wrangler-3.85.0.tgz",
+      "integrity": "sha512-r5YCWUaF4ApLnloNE6jHHgRYdFzYHoajTlC1tns42UzQ2Ls63VAqD3b0cxOqzDUfmlSb3skpmu0B0Ssi3QWPAg==",
       "license": "MIT OR Apache-2.0",
       "dependencies": {
         "@cloudflare/kv-asset-handler": "0.3.4",
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 4f2e10c..7b3d53f 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
     "esbuild": "^0.24.0",
     "fast-xml-parser": "^4.5.0",
     "tsx": "^4.19.2",
-    "wrangler": "^3.84.1"
+    "wrangler": "^3.85.0"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "@eslint/js": "^9.11.0",
diff --git a/pubspec.lock b/pubspec.lock
index 06b6362..fc181aa 100644
--- a/pubspec.lock
+++ b/pubspec.lock
@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ packages:
     source: hosted
     version: "4.2.0"
   http:
-    dependency: "direct main"
+    dependency: transitive
     description:
       name: http
       sha256: b9c29a161230ee03d3ccf545097fccd9b87a5264228c5d348202e0f0c28f9010
diff --git a/pubspec.yaml b/pubspec.yaml
index 03567be..54818bb 100644
--- a/pubspec.yaml
+++ b/pubspec.yaml
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ dependencies:
   flutter_svg: ^2.0.13
   flutter_web_plugins:
     sdk: flutter
-  http: ^1.2.2
   intl: ^0.19.0
   path: ^1.9.0
   riverpod_annotation: ^2.6.1