diff --git a/jira.go b/jira.go
index 54489a8..b09370c 100644
--- a/jira.go
+++ b/jira.go
@@ -281,3 +281,37 @@ func (r *Response) populatePageValues(v interface{}) {
 	}
 	return
 }
+
+// BasicAuthTransport is an http.RoundTripper that authenticates all requests
+// using HTTP Basic Authentication with the provided username and password.
+type BasicAuthTransport struct {
+	Username string
+	Password string
+
+	// Transport is the underlying HTTP transport to use when making requests.
+	// It will default to http.DefaultTransport if nil.
+	Transport http.RoundTripper
+}
+
+// RoundTrip implements the RoundTripper interface.  We just add the
+// basic auth and return the RoundTripper for this transport type.
+func (t *BasicAuthTransport) RoundTrip(req *http.Request) (*http.Response, error) {
+	req.SetBasicAuth(t.Username, t.Password)
+	return t.transport().RoundTrip(req)
+}
+
+// Client returns an *http.Client that makes requests that are authenticated
+// using HTTP Basic Authentication.  This is a nice little bit of sugar
+// so we can just get the client instead of creating the client in the calling code.
+// If it's necessary to send more information on client init, the calling code can
+// always skip this and set the transport itself.
+func (t *BasicAuthTransport) Client() *http.Client {
+	return &http.Client{Transport: t}
+}
+
+func (t *BasicAuthTransport) transport() http.RoundTripper {
+	if t.Transport != nil {
+		return t.Transport
+	}
+	return http.DefaultTransport
+}
diff --git a/jira_test.go b/jira_test.go
index acdc265..2e4562f 100644
--- a/jira_test.go
+++ b/jira_test.go
@@ -451,3 +451,47 @@ func TestClient_Do_PagingInfoEmptyByDefault(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("StartAt not equal to 0")
 	}
 }
+
+func TestBasicAuthTransport(t *testing.T) {
+	setup()
+	defer teardown()
+
+	username, password := "username", "password"
+
+	testMux.HandleFunc("/", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		u, p, ok := r.BasicAuth()
+		if !ok {
+			t.Errorf("request does not contain basic auth credentials")
+		}
+		if u != username {
+			t.Errorf("request contained basic auth username %q, want %q", u, username)
+		}
+		if p != password {
+			t.Errorf("request contained basic auth password %q, want %q", p, password)
+		}
+	})
+
+	tp := &BasicAuthTransport{
+		Username: username,
+		Password: password,
+	}
+	basicAuthClient, _ := NewClient(tp.Client(), "/")
+	req, _ := basicAuthClient.NewRequest("GET", ".", nil)
+	basicAuthClient.Do(req, nil)
+}
+
+func TestBasicAuthTransport_transport(t *testing.T) {
+	// default transport
+	tp := &BasicAuthTransport{}
+	if tp.transport() != http.DefaultTransport {
+		t.Errorf("Expected http.DefaultTransport to be used.")
+	}
+
+	// custom transport
+	tp = &BasicAuthTransport{
+		Transport: &http.Transport{},
+	}
+	if tp.transport() == http.DefaultTransport {
+		t.Errorf("Expected custom transport to be used.")
+	}
+}