diff --git a/rdflib/plugins/stores/sparqlwrapper.py b/rdflib/plugins/stores/sparqlconnector.py
similarity index 83%
rename from rdflib/plugins/stores/sparqlwrapper.py
rename to rdflib/plugins/stores/sparqlconnector.py
index c3fbb946f..ee981419a 100644
--- a/rdflib/plugins/stores/sparqlwrapper.py
+++ b/rdflib/plugins/stores/sparqlconnector.py
@@ -11,16 +11,20 @@
 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
-class SPARQLWrapperException(Exception):
+class SPARQLConnectorException(Exception):
     pass
 
-
+# TODO: Pull in these from the result implementation plugins?
 _response_mime_types = {
     'xml': 'application/sparql-results+xml, application/rdf+xml',
+    'json': 'application/sparql-results+json',
+    'csv': 'text/csv',
+    'tsv': 'text/tab-separated-values',
+    'application/rdf+xml': 'application/rdf+xml',
 }
 
 
-class SPARQLWrapper(object):
+class SPARQLConnector(object):
 
     """
     this class deals with nitty gritty details of talking to a SPARQL server
@@ -56,14 +60,14 @@ def method(self):
     @method.setter
     def method(self, method):
         if method not in ('GET', 'POST'):
-            raise SPARQLWrapperException('Method must be "GET" or "POST"')
+            raise SPARQLConnectorException('Method must be "GET" or "POST"')
 
         self._method = method
 
     def query(self, query, default_graph=None):
 
         if not self.query_endpoint:
-            raise SPARQLWrapperException("Query endpoint not set!")
+            raise SPARQLConnectorException("Query endpoint not set!")
 
         params = {'query': query}
         if default_graph:
@@ -85,7 +89,7 @@ def query(self, query, default_graph=None):
         elif self.method == 'POST':
             args['data'] = params
         else:
-            raise SPARQLWrapperException("Unknown method %s" % self.method)
+            raise SPARQLConnectorException("Unknown method %s" % self.method)
 
         res = self.session.request(self.method, **args)
 
@@ -95,7 +99,7 @@ def query(self, query, default_graph=None):
 
     def update(self, update, default_graph=None):
         if not self.update_endpoint:
-            raise SPARQLWrapperException("Query endpoint not set!")
+            raise SPARQLConnectorException("Query endpoint not set!")
 
         params = {}
 
diff --git a/rdflib/plugins/stores/sparqlstore.py b/rdflib/plugins/stores/sparqlstore.py
index 42e8d2a20..5f7446ced 100644
--- a/rdflib/plugins/stores/sparqlstore.py
+++ b/rdflib/plugins/stores/sparqlstore.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 import re
 import collections
 
-from .sparqlwrapper import SPARQLWrapper
+from .sparqlconnector import SPARQLConnector
 
 from rdflib.plugins.stores.regexmatching import NATIVE_REGEX
 
@@ -37,11 +37,10 @@ def _node_to_sparql(node):
     return node.n3()
 
 
-class SPARQLStore(SPARQLWrapper, Store):
-    """
-    An RDFLib store around a SPARQL endpoint
+class SPARQLStore(SPARQLConnector, Store):
+    """An RDFLib store around a SPARQL endpoint
 
-    This is in theory context-aware and should work as expected
+    This is context-aware and should work as expected
     when a context is specified.
 
     For ConjunctiveGraphs, reading is done from the "default graph". Exactly
@@ -51,7 +50,7 @@ class SPARQLStore(SPARQLWrapper, Store):
     motivated by the SPARQL 1.1.
 
     Fuseki/TDB has a flag for specifying that the default graph
-    is the union of all graphs (tdb:unionDefaultGraph in the Fuseki config).
+    is the union of all graphs (``tdb:unionDefaultGraph`` in the Fuseki config).
 
     .. warning:: By default the SPARQL Store does not support blank-nodes!
 
@@ -61,9 +60,9 @@ class SPARQLStore(SPARQLWrapper, Store):
 
                  See http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-query/#BGPsparqlBNodes
 
-    You can make use of such extensions through the node_to_sparql and
-    node_from_result arguments. For example if you want to transform
-    BNode('0001') into "<bnode:b0001>", you can use a function like this:
+    You can make use of such extensions through the ``node_to_sparql``
+    argument. For example if you want to transform BNode('0001') into
+    "<bnode:b0001>", you can use a function like this:
 
     >>> def my_bnode_ext(node):
     ...    if isinstance(node, BNode):
@@ -72,6 +71,22 @@ class SPARQLStore(SPARQLWrapper, Store):
     >>> store = SPARQLStore('http://dbpedia.org/sparql',
     ...                     node_to_sparql=my_bnode_ext)
 
+    You can request a particular result serialization with the
+    ``returnFormat`` parameter. This is a string that must have a
+    matching plugin registered. Built in is support for ``xml``,
+    ``json``, ``csv``, ``tsv`` and ``application/rdf+xml``.
+
+    The underlying SPARQLConnector builds in the requests library.
+    Any extra kwargs passed to the SPARQLStore connector are passed to
+    requests when doing HTTP calls. I.e. you have full control of
+    cookies/auth/headers.
+
+    Form example:
+
+    >>> store = SPARQLStore('...my endpoint ...', auth=('user','pass'))
+
+    will use HTTP basic auth.
+
     """
     formula_aware = False
     transaction_aware = False
@@ -83,11 +98,11 @@ def __init__(self,
                  sparql11=True, context_aware=True,
                  node_to_sparql=_node_to_sparql,
                  returnFormat='xml',
-                 **sparqlwrapper_kwargs):
+                 **sparqlconnector_kwargs):
         """
         """
         super(SPARQLStore, self).__init__(
-            endpoint, returnFormat=returnFormat, **sparqlwrapper_kwargs)
+            endpoint, returnFormat=returnFormat, **sparqlconnector_kwargs)
 
         self.node_to_sparql = node_to_sparql
         self.nsBindings = {}
@@ -353,7 +368,7 @@ def _is_contextual(self, graph):
             return graph.identifier != DATASET_DEFAULT_GRAPH_ID
 
     def close(self, commit_pending_transaction=None):
-        SPARQLWrapper.close(self)
+        SPARQLConnector.close(self)
 
 
 class SPARQLUpdateStore(SPARQLStore):
@@ -588,7 +603,7 @@ def _update(self, update):
 
         self._updates += 1
 
-        SPARQLWrapper.update(self, update)
+        SPARQLConnector.update(self, update)
 
     def update(self, query,
                initNs={},
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index a481da766..215e257a8 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,5 +2,6 @@ flake8
 html5lib
 isodate
 pyparsing
+requests
 six
 doctest-ignore-unicode