diff --git a/swift/storage.py b/swift/storage.py
index bc014fc..b5244a8 100644
--- a/swift/storage.py
+++ b/swift/storage.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import mimetypes
 import os
+import posixpath
 import re
 from datetime import datetime
 from functools import wraps
@@ -7,6 +8,7 @@
 from time import time
 import magic
 from django.conf import settings
+from django.contrib.staticfiles.storage import CachedFilesMixin, ManifestFilesMixin
 from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured
 from django.core.files import File
 from django.core.files.storage import Storage
@@ -29,6 +31,17 @@ def setting(name, default=None):
     return getattr(settings, name, default)
 
 
+def safe_normpath(path):
+    """
+    Avoid doing normpath on empty path since:
+    - posixpath.normpath('') -> '.'
+    - we should avoid relative paths with swift
+    """
+    if path:
+        return posixpath.normpath(path)
+    return path
+
+
 def validate_settings(backend):
     # Check mandatory parameters
     if not backend.api_auth_url:
@@ -108,7 +121,7 @@ def prepend_name_prefix(func):
     """
     @wraps(func)
     def prepend_prefix(self, name, *args, **kwargs):
-        name = self.name_prefix + name
+        name = self.name_prefix + safe_normpath(name)
         return func(self, name, *args, **kwargs)
     return prepend_prefix
 
@@ -241,7 +254,7 @@ def set_token(self, new_token):
 
     def _open(self, name, mode='rb'):
         original_name = name
-        name = self.name_prefix + name
+        name = self.name_prefix + safe_normpath(name)
 
         headers, content = swiftclient.get_object(self.storage_url,
                                                   self.token,
@@ -255,7 +268,7 @@ def _open(self, name, mode='rb'):
 
     def _save(self, name, content, headers=None):
         original_name = name
-        name = self.name_prefix + name
+        name = self.name_prefix + safe_normpath(name)
 
         if self.content_type_from_fd:
             content_type = magic.from_buffer(content.read(1024), mime=True)
@@ -426,3 +439,23 @@ def get_available_name(self, name, max_length=None):
         overwrite it.
         """
         return name
+
+
+class CachedStaticSwiftStorage(CachedFilesMixin, StaticSwiftStorage):
+    """
+    A static file system storage backend which also saves
+    hashed copies of the files it saves.
+    """
+    pass
+
+
+class ManifestStaticSwiftStorage(ManifestFilesMixin, StaticSwiftStorage):
+    """
+    A static file system storage backend which also saves
+    hashed copies of the files it saves.
+    """
+    def read_manifest(self):
+        try:
+            super(ManifestStaticSwiftStorage, self).read_manifest()
+        except swiftclient.ClientException:
+            return None