diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8304bf6..635bdf1 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -146,6 +146,24 @@ smoke_header "X-Forwarded-Proto: https"
 
 Existing custom headers can be unset with `remove_smoke_headers`.
 
+### Basic Auth
+
+Basic Auth credentials can be passed using: `smoke_basic_auth <user> <pass>`
+To unset credentials pass no arguments or empty ones.
+
+Full usage example:
+
+```bash
+smoke_url "${API}/health"
+    smoke_assert_code 401
+
+smoke_basic_auth user1 pass1   # set credentials
+smoke_url_ok "${API}/health"   # call with credentials
+    smoke_assert_code 200
+	
+smoke_basic_auth   # unset
+```
+
 ### CSRF tokens
 
 Web applications that are protected with CSRF tokens will need to extract a
@@ -248,3 +266,4 @@ API
 |`smoke_host <host>`              | set the host header to use                           |
 |`smoke_header <header>`          | set additional request header                        |
 |`smoke_tcp_ok <host> <port>`     | open a tcp connection and check for a `Connected` response |
+|`smoke_basic_auth <user> <pass>` | set Basic Auth credentials                                 |
diff --git a/smoke.sh b/smoke.sh
index 4932637..b38a7f9 100644
--- a/smoke.sh
+++ b/smoke.sh
@@ -18,6 +18,11 @@ SMOKE_HEADERS=()
 
 ## "Public API"
 
+smoke_basic_auth() {
+    SMOKE_BASIC_AUTH_USER="$1"
+    SMOKE_BASIC_AUTH_PASSWORD="$2"
+}
+
 smoke_csrf() {
     SMOKE_CSRF_TOKEN="$1"
 }
@@ -189,6 +194,10 @@ _curl() {
         opt+=(-H "$header")
     done
   fi
+  if [[ -n "$SMOKE_BASIC_AUTH_USER" ]]
+  then
+    opt+=(-u "$SMOKE_BASIC_AUTH_USER:$SMOKE_BASIC_AUTH_PASSWORD")
+  fi
 
   curl "${opt[@]}" "$@" > $SMOKE_CURL_BODY
 }
@@ -257,6 +266,13 @@ _smoke_print_success() {
 }
 
 _smoke_print_url() {
-    TEXT="$1"
+    TEXT="$@"
     echo "> $TEXT"
+    
+    if [[ -n "$SMOKE_BASIC_AUTH_USER" ]]
+    then
+        echo "> $${bold}${TEXT}${normal} with BasicAuth ${bold}${SMOKE_BASIC_AUTH_USER}:****${normal}"
+    else
+        echo "> ${bold}${TEXT}${normal}"
+    fi
 }