Description of problem:

Man page of yum.con :

You  can  use  HTTP  basic  auth by prepending "user:password@" to the server name in the baseurl line.  For example: "baseurl=http://user:passwd@example.com/".


If you do that, the repository doesn't work whereas the same repository file on Fedora 14 works.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Yum 3.2.22-26.el5 on x86_64
Under CentOS 5.5 (with no update, so like REHL 5.5)


How reproducible:

Ever

Steps to Reproduce:
1.create a repository who works without http basic authentication
2.In your httpd.conf, add :
<Directory /var/www/repo>
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "Password Required"
    AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/passwords/repo
    Require valid-user
</Directory>
3.Add a user to htpasswd :
htpasswd -c /../mypasswordsFile user
4.Finally, change your repository file in /etc/yum.repos.d like explain in man page :

baseurl=http://user:passwd@www.example.com/
  
Actual results:

Not Working