diff --git a/src/ng/compile.js b/src/ng/compile.js
index 4d89e8795e2d..b6316752e144 100644
--- a/src/ng/compile.js
+++ b/src/ng/compile.js
@@ -2144,7 +2144,7 @@ function $CompileProvider($provide, $$sanitizeUriProvider) {
 
       $compileNode.empty();
 
-      $templateRequest($sce.getTrustedResourceUrl(templateUrl))
+      $templateRequest(templateUrl)
         .then(function(content) {
           var compileNode, tempTemplateAttrs, $template, childBoundTranscludeFn;
 
diff --git a/src/ng/directive/ngInclude.js b/src/ng/directive/ngInclude.js
index e8634993c440..3875d1cb9916 100644
--- a/src/ng/directive/ngInclude.js
+++ b/src/ng/directive/ngInclude.js
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ var ngIncludeDirective = ['$templateRequest', '$anchorScroll', '$animate', '$sce
           }
         };
 
-        scope.$watch($sce.parseAsResourceUrl(srcExp), function ngIncludeWatchAction(src) {
+        scope.$watch(srcExp, function ngIncludeWatchAction(src) {
           var afterAnimation = function() {
             if (isDefined(autoScrollExp) && (!autoScrollExp || scope.$eval(autoScrollExp))) {
               $anchorScroll();
diff --git a/src/ng/templateRequest.js b/src/ng/templateRequest.js
index bacf30e1742d..04250a833bd6 100644
--- a/src/ng/templateRequest.js
+++ b/src/ng/templateRequest.js
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ var $compileMinErr = minErr('$compile');
  * @property {number} totalPendingRequests total amount of pending template requests being downloaded.
  */
 function $TemplateRequestProvider() {
-  this.$get = ['$templateCache', '$http', '$q', function($templateCache, $http, $q) {
+  this.$get = ['$templateCache', '$http', '$q', '$sce', function($templateCache, $http, $q, $sce) {
     function handleRequestFn(tpl, ignoreRequestError) {
       var self = handleRequestFn;
       self.totalPendingRequests++;
@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ function $TemplateRequestProvider() {
         transformResponse: transformResponse
       };
 
+      if (!isDefined($templateCache.get(tpl))) {
+        tpl = $sce.getTrustedResourceUrl(tpl);
+      }
+
       return $http.get(tpl, httpOptions)
         .then(function(response) {
           self.totalPendingRequests--;
diff --git a/test/ng/compileSpec.js b/test/ng/compileSpec.js
index 9509e90b6202..6eb9424ed6c9 100755
--- a/test/ng/compileSpec.js
+++ b/test/ng/compileSpec.js
@@ -1242,15 +1242,6 @@ describe('$compile', function() {
           }
         ));
 
-        it('should not load cross domain templates by default', inject(
-          function($compile, $rootScope, $templateCache, $sce) {
-            expect(function() {
-              $templateCache.put('http://example.com/should-not-load.html', 'Should not load even if in cache.');
-              $compile('<div class="crossDomainTemplate"></div>')($rootScope);
-            }).toThrowMinErr('$sce', 'insecurl', 'Blocked loading resource from url not allowed by $sceDelegate policy.  URL: http://example.com/should-not-load.html');
-          }
-        ));
-
         it('should load cross domain templates when trusted', inject(
           function($compile, $httpBackend, $rootScope, $sce) {
             $httpBackend.expect('GET', 'http://example.com/trusted-template.html').respond('<span>example.com/trusted_template_contents</span>');
diff --git a/test/ng/templateRequestSpec.js b/test/ng/templateRequestSpec.js
index 2b695d6ab300..ee50652f7ddd 100644
--- a/test/ng/templateRequestSpec.js
+++ b/test/ng/templateRequestSpec.js
@@ -16,6 +16,28 @@ describe('$templateRequest', function() {
     expect(content).toBe('<div>abc</div>');
   }));
 
+  it('should not download templates from untrusted urls',
+    inject(function($templateRequest) {
+      expect(function() {
+        $templateRequest('http://example.com/tpl.html');
+      }).toThrowMinErr(
+          '$sce', 'insecurl',
+          /Blocked loading resource from url not allowed by \$sceDelegate policy.  URL: http:\/\/example.com\/tpl\.html.*/);
+  }));
+
+  it('should fetch templates from cache even if url is untrusted',
+     inject(function($rootScope, $templateRequest, $httpBackend, $templateCache) {
+
+     $templateCache.put('http://example.com/tpl.html', '<div>abc</div>');
+
+     var content;
+     $templateRequest('http://example.com/tpl.html').then(function(html) { content = html; });
+
+     $rootScope.$digest();
+
+     expect(content).toBe('<div>abc</div>');
+  }));
+
   it('should cache the request to prevent extra downloads',
     inject(function($rootScope, $templateRequest, $httpBackend) {