help! basic-auth not working from custom yum repo file

Tom Sztur <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.rpm.yum
Message-ID <[email protected]>
it seems that basic auth from a custom yum repo file is not working.
We have our enviroment running an internal repository.
We have had no problems with Red Hat sytems and some Ubuntu.
However I installed YUM on Ubuntu (no choice, our entire eviroment runs on
yum repos for distrution).
When setting up a custom yum repo with basic auth like this:
baseurl=http://username:password@internalip/
or
http://user%40example.com:[email protected]/foo/$releasever/$basearch

I followed instructions in:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=143691

nothing helps.  Error is always; 'HTTP Error 401: basic auth failed'

Errors on the webserver show as no username/password being sent whatsoever.

When I take out authentication on the server and make it work without a
username/password it works fine.
yum version is 3.2.25
python version is 2.6
Ubuntu version is 10.10.
How can I fix this?
this is becoming a huge problem.

tia.

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