diff --git a/lib/soap/netHttpClient.rb b/lib/soap/netHttpClient.rb
index 95a9d6ae..792ea3dd 100644
--- a/lib/soap/netHttpClient.rb
+++ b/lib/soap/netHttpClient.rb
@@ -169,8 +169,10 @@ def create_connection(url)
     unless no_proxy?(url)
       proxy_host = @proxy.host
       proxy_port = @proxy.port
+      proxy_user = @proxy.user
+      proxy_password = @proxy.password
     end
-    http = Net::HTTP::Proxy(proxy_host, proxy_port).new(url.host, url.port)
+    http = Net::HTTP::Proxy(proxy_host, proxy_port, proxy_user, proxy_password).new(url.host, url.port)
     if http.respond_to?(:set_debug_output)
       http.set_debug_output(@debug_dev)
     end
diff --git a/test/soap/test_nethttpclient.rb b/test/soap/test_nethttpclient.rb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d51598d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/soap/test_nethttpclient.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+# encoding: UTF-8
+require 'helper'
+require 'soap/netHttpClient'
+
+module SOAP
+
+
+# Covers SOAP::NetHttpClient#create_connection directly (via #send, since
+# it's private) rather than through the full driver/streamHandler stack:
+# HTTPStreamHandler only falls back to NetHttpClient when both httpclient
+# and http-access2 fail to load, and this project's Gemfile always
+# requires httpclient, so nothing else in the suite ever exercises this
+# file. create_connection only builds and configures a Net::HTTP object
+# (no #start call), so this is safe to test without a real network call
+# or proxy server.
+class TestNetHttpClient < Test::Unit::TestCase
+  TARGET = URI.parse("http://target.example.com/")
+
+  def test_proxy_with_credentials
+    client = NetHttpClient.new("http://myuser:mypass@myproxy.example.com:8080")
+    conn = client.send(:create_connection, TARGET)
+    assert_equal("myproxy.example.com", conn.proxy_address)
+    assert_equal(8080, conn.proxy_port)
+    assert_equal("myuser", conn.proxy_user)
+    assert_equal("mypass", conn.proxy_pass)
+  end
+
+  def test_proxy_without_credentials
+    client = NetHttpClient.new("http://myproxy.example.com:8080")
+    conn = client.send(:create_connection, TARGET)
+    assert_equal("myproxy.example.com", conn.proxy_address)
+    assert_equal(8080, conn.proxy_port)
+    assert_nil(conn.proxy_user)
+    assert_nil(conn.proxy_pass)
+  end
+
+  def test_no_proxy
+    client = NetHttpClient.new
+    conn = client.send(:create_connection, TARGET)
+    assert_nil(conn.proxy_address)
+  end
+end
+
+
+end