diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+* 3000.11.1.5 (13 May 2016)
+
+  - bug fix in parsing username & password from URI
+
 * 3000.11.1.4 (18 March 2016)
 
   - build with template-haskell 2.11 / GHC 8.0.1
diff --git a/Network/XmlRpc/Client.hs b/Network/XmlRpc/Client.hs
--- a/Network/XmlRpc/Client.hs
+++ b/Network/XmlRpc/Client.hs
@@ -150,6 +150,7 @@
 -- | Post some content to a uri, return the content of the response
 --   or an error.
 -- FIXME: should we really use fail?
+
 post :: String -> HeadersAList -> BSL.ByteString -> IO U.ByteString
 post url headers content = do
     uri <- maybeFail ("Bad URI: '" ++ url ++ "'") (parseURI url)
@@ -216,7 +217,7 @@
     where
       parseUserInfo info = let (u,pw) = break (==':') $ uriUserInfo info
                            in ( if null u then Nothing else Just u
-                              , if null pw then Nothing else Just (tail pw))
+                              , if null pw then Nothing else Just $ dropAtEnd $ tail pw )
 
 --
 -- Utility functions
@@ -224,3 +225,6 @@
 
 maybeFail :: Monad m => String -> Maybe a -> m a
 maybeFail msg = maybe (fail msg) return
+
+dropAtEnd :: String -> String
+dropAtEnd l = take (length l - 1) l
diff --git a/haxr.cabal b/haxr.cabal
--- a/haxr.cabal
+++ b/haxr.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Name: haxr
-Version: 3000.11.1.4
+Version: 3000.11.1.5
 Cabal-version: >=1.10
 Build-type: Simple
 Copyright: Bjorn Bringert, 2003-2006