Adds authorization basic to HTTP requests

pom.xml

@@ -435,6 +435,13 @@
             <artifactId>shrinkwrap-descriptors-impl-javaee</artifactId>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
+
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>commons-codec</groupId>
+            <artifactId>commons-codec</artifactId>
+            <version>1.9</version>
+        </dependency>
+
     </dependencies>
 
     <reporting>

src/main/java/biz/paluch/logging/gelf/intern/sender/GelfHTTPSender.java

@@ -1,14 +1,13 @@
 package biz.paluch.logging.gelf.intern.sender;
 
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.OutputStream;
-import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
-import java.net.URL;
-
 import biz.paluch.logging.gelf.intern.ErrorReporter;
 import biz.paluch.logging.gelf.intern.GelfMessage;
 import biz.paluch.logging.gelf.intern.GelfSender;
 
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
+import java.net.URL;
 /**
  * HTTP-based Gelf sender. This sender uses Java's HTTP client to {@code POST} JSON Gelf messages to an endpoint.
  *
@@ -51,6 +50,10 @@ public boolean sendMessage(GelfMessage message) {
         try {
 
             connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
+            if (url.getUserInfo() != null) {
+                String basicAuth = "Basic " + org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64.encodeBase64String(url.getUserInfo().getBytes());
+                connection.setRequestProperty("Authorization", basicAuth);
+            }
             connection.setConnectTimeout(connectTimeoutMs);
             connection.setReadTimeout(readTimeoutMs);
             connection.setDoOutput(true);