diff --git a/bin/repoman b/bin/repoman
index 1cdfcf6..cfe4b8e 100755
--- a/bin/repoman
+++ b/bin/repoman
@@ -25,11 +25,6 @@ import textwrap
 import time
 import platform
 
-try:
-	from urllib.request import urlopen as urllib_request_urlopen
-except ImportError:
-	from urllib import urlopen as urllib_request_urlopen
-
 from itertools import chain
 from stat import S_ISDIR
 
@@ -75,7 +70,7 @@ from portage.process import find_binary, spawn
 from portage.output import bold, create_color_func, \
 	green, nocolor, red
 from portage.output import ConsoleStyleFile, StyleWriter
-from portage.util import cmp_sort_key, writemsg_level
+from portage.util import cmp_sort_key, urlopen, writemsg_level
 from portage.util._desktop_entry import validate_desktop_entry
 from portage.package.ebuild.digestgen import digestgen
 from portage.eapi import eapi_has_iuse_defaults, eapi_has_required_use
@@ -1051,7 +1046,7 @@ def fetch_metadata_dtd():
 			"needs to be refetched, doing that now")
 		print()
 		try:
-			url_f = urllib_request_urlopen(metadata_dtd_uri)
+			url_f = urlopen(metadata_dtd_uri)
 			msg_info = url_f.info()
 			last_modified = msg_info.get('last-modified')
 			if last_modified is not None:
diff --git a/pym/portage/dbapi/bintree.py b/pym/portage/dbapi/bintree.py
index 2295b9f..810163d 100644
--- a/pym/portage/dbapi/bintree.py
+++ b/pym/portage/dbapi/bintree.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1998-2011 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1998-2012 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 __all__ = ["bindbapi", "binarytree"]
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ from portage.dep import Atom, use_reduce, paren_enclose
 from portage.exception import AlarmSignal, InvalidPackageName, \
 	PermissionDenied, PortageException
 from portage.localization import _
+from portage.util import urlopen
 from portage import _movefile
 from portage import os
 from portage import _encodings
@@ -45,10 +46,8 @@ import warnings
 from itertools import chain
 try:
 	from urllib.parse import urlparse
-	from urllib.request import urlopen as urllib_request_urlopen
 except ImportError:
 	from urlparse import urlparse
-	from urllib import urlopen as urllib_request_urlopen
 
 if sys.hexversion >= 0x3000000:
 	basestring = str
@@ -843,7 +842,7 @@ class binarytree(object):
 				# slash, so join manually...
 				url = base_url.rstrip("/") + "/Packages"
 				try:
-					f = urllib_request_urlopen(url)
+					f = urlopen(url)
 				except IOError:
 					path = parsed_url.path.rstrip("/") + "/Packages"
 
diff --git a/pym/portage/glsa.py b/pym/portage/glsa.py
index 2df7ec3..16f662f 100644
--- a/pym/portage/glsa.py
+++ b/pym/portage/glsa.py
@@ -1,14 +1,10 @@
-# Copyright 2003-2011 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 2003-2012 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 from __future__ import absolute_import
 
 import io
 import sys
-try:
-	from urllib.request import urlopen as urllib_request_urlopen
-except ImportError:
-	from urllib import urlopen as urllib_request_urlopen
 import re
 import xml.dom.minidom
 
@@ -18,7 +14,7 @@ from portage import _encodings
 from portage import _unicode_decode
 from portage import _unicode_encode
 from portage.versions import pkgsplit, catpkgsplit, pkgcmp, best
-from portage.util import grabfile
+from portage.util import grabfile, urlopen
 from portage.const import CACHE_PATH
 from portage.localization import _
 from portage.dep import _slot_separator
@@ -476,7 +472,7 @@ class Glsa:
 			myurl = "file://"+self.nr
 		else:
 			myurl = repository + "glsa-%s.xml" % str(self.nr)
-		self.parse(urllib_request_urlopen(myurl))
+		self.parse(urlopen(myurl))
 		return None
 
 	def parse(self, myfile):
diff --git a/pym/portage/util/__init__.py b/pym/portage/util/__init__.py
index d6ac46c..da6ffbc 100644
--- a/pym/portage/util/__init__.py
+++ b/pym/portage/util/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2004-2011 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 2004-2012 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 __all__ = ['apply_permissions', 'apply_recursive_permissions',
@@ -26,6 +26,14 @@ import string
 import sys
 import traceback
 import glob
+try:
+	import urllib.parse as urllib_parse
+	import urllib.request as urllib_request
+	from urllib.parse import splituser as urllib_parse_splituser
+except ImportError:
+	import urlparse as urllib_parse
+	import urllib2 as urllib_request
+	from urllib import splituser as urllib_parse_splituser
 
 import portage
 portage.proxy.lazyimport.lazyimport(globals(),
@@ -1640,3 +1648,13 @@ def getlibpaths(root, env=None):
 	rval.append("/lib")
 
 	return [normalize_path(x) for x in rval if x]
+
+def urlopen(url):	
+	parse_result = urllib_parse.urlparse(url)
+	netloc = urllib_parse_splituser(parse_result.netloc)[1]
+	url = urllib_parse.urlunparse((parse_result.scheme, netloc, parse_result.path, parse_result.params, parse_result.query, parse_result.fragment))
+	auth_handler = urllib_request.HTTPBasicAuthHandler()
+	if parse_result.username is not None:
+		auth_handler.add_password(realm=None, uri=url, user=parse_result.username, passwd=parse_result.password)
+	opener = urllib_request.build_opener(auth_handler)
+	return opener.open(url)