diff --git a/llama_stack/providers/utils/memory/vector_store.py b/llama_stack/providers/utils/memory/vector_store.py
index d575a985b..1e7a01b12 100644
--- a/llama_stack/providers/utils/memory/vector_store.py
+++ b/llama_stack/providers/utils/memory/vector_store.py
@@ -102,6 +102,15 @@ async def content_from_doc(doc: MemoryBankDocument) -> str:
                 r = await client.get(doc.content.uri)
                 return r.text
 
+    pattern = re.compile("^(https?://|file://|data:)")
+    if pattern.match(doc.content):
+        if doc.content.startswith("data:"):
+            return content_from_data(doc.content)
+        else:
+            async with httpx.AsyncClient() as client:
+                r = await client.get(doc.content)
+                return r.text
+
     return interleaved_text_media_as_str(doc.content)