diff --git a/Lib/urllib2.py b/Lib/urllib2.py
index 8d38749..c525f8c 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib2.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib2.py
@@ -714,7 +714,7 @@
         # XXX could be multiple headers
         authreq = headers.get(authreq, None)
         if authreq:
-            mo = AbstractBasicAuthHandler.rx.match(authreq)
+            mo = AbstractBasicAuthHandler.rx.search(authreq)
             if mo:
                 scheme, realm = mo.groups()
                 if scheme.lower() == 'basic':
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index edd5989..291cc77 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -72,6 +72,9 @@
 Library
 -------
 
+- urllib2 now recognizes Basic authentication even if other authentication
+  schemes are offered.
+
 - Bug #1001053.  wave.open() now accepts unicode filenames.
 
 - gzip.GzipFile has a new fileno() method, to retrieve the handle of the