HTTP basic authentication support

I keep some personal files in a git repository. Now I want to have the
repository in an HTTP server so that I can access it everywhere I go.
Since I don't want to share the repository with the whole world, I
would like to use the HTTP basic authentication, just to give a little
protection. But it seems that git doesn't support it, yet. Or did I miss
something?

I made a test repository which requires basic authentication. Login is
foo and password bar.

git clone doesn't work:

$ git clone http://foo:bar@www.valo.iki.fi/kalle/tmp/auth.git/ auth  
defaulting to local storage area
Cannot get remote repository information.
Perhaps git-update-server-info needs to be run there?
$ 

But curl works:

$ curl http://foo:bar@www.valo.iki.fi/kalle/tmp/auth.git/info/refs
4cb663bd2b92d57c5e1ba0bfa9bf65c2e50ff46a        refs/heads/master
$ 

I'm using git updated an hour ago.

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Kalle Valo