--- pisa_util.py.orig	2009-11-20 02:00:27.000000000 +0300
+++ pisa_util.py	2009-11-25 14:09:14.000000000 +0300
@@ -462,24 +462,35 @@
                 urlParts = urlparse.urlparse(uri)
 
             log.debug("URLParts: %r", urlParts)
-
+            
             # Drive letters have len==1 but we are looking for things like http:
             if len(urlParts[0]) > 1 :
 
                 # External data
                 if basepath:
                     uri = urlparse.urljoin(basepath, uri)
-
+                
                 #path = urlparse.urlsplit(url)[2]
                 #mimetype = getMimeType(path)
                 
                 # Using HTTPLIB
-                server, path = urllib.splithost(uri[uri.find("//"):])
+                netloc, path = urllib.splithost(uri[uri.find("//"):])
+                if netloc.find("@"):
+                   httpAuth = True
+                   userid = netloc[:netloc.find(":")]
+                   passwd = netloc[netloc.find(":")+1:netloc.find("@")]
+                   server = netloc[netloc.find("@")+1:]
+                else:
+                   server = netloc
                 if uri.startswith("https://"):
                     conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection(server)
                 else:
                     conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(server)
-                conn.request("GET", path)
+                conn.putrequest("GET", path)
+                if httpAuth:
+                    auth = 'Basic ' + string.strip(base64.encodestring(userid + ':' + passwd))
+                    conn.putheader('Authorization', auth)
+                    conn.endheaders()
                 r1 = conn.getresponse()
                 # log.debug("HTTP %r %r %r %r", server, path, uri, r1)
                 if (r1.status, r1.reason) == (200, "OK"):