diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index abbf1d73..1938d154 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # Unreleased
 
+  * Handle Authorization: Basic from URI (#923)
+
 # 3.0.0-rc4
 
   * Default to `TooManyRedirects` error (#916)
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index d8ed8820..1c4125bb 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1235,10 +1235,11 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "ureq-proto"
-version = "0.2.0"
+version = "0.2.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "dcec9cbfbf05a7feef00db0295c6183f468635c7adb12a31e941f3660b071bff"
+checksum = "f76790855073cbbdf9a23a7a622741480cebaec1d9b9b06b6ed2c55611fed37c"
 dependencies = [
+ "base64",
  "http",
  "httparse",
  "log",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 93bd392e..f843386c 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ _test = []
 
 [dependencies]
 base64 = "0.22.1"
-ureq-proto = "0.2.0"
+ureq-proto = "0.2.2"
 # ureq-proto = { path = "../ureq-proto" }
 log = "0.4.22"
 once_cell = "1.19.0"
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index f8feba1e..a3b5829b 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -813,6 +813,15 @@ pub(crate) mod test {
             .expect("to send correctly");
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    #[cfg(not(feature = "_test"))]
+    fn username_password_from_uri() {
+        init_test_log();
+        let mut res = get("https://martin:secret@httpbin.org/get").call().unwrap();
+        let body = res.body_mut().read_to_string().unwrap();
+        assert!(body.contains("Basic bWFydGluOnNlY3JldA=="));
+    }
+
     #[test]
     #[cfg(all(feature = "cookies", feature = "_test"))]
     fn store_response_cookies() {