QNetworkAccessManager: HTTP doesn't use Basic-Authentication from URL

Currently, when using QNetworkAccessManager to do a GET or POST request on QUrl("http://user:password@mydomain.ch/"), no authentication is done.

Wouldn't it make sense for QNetworkAccessHttpBackend to use the authentication information in the URL to do HTTP Basic Authentication? e.g.

if(!url.userName().isEmpty() || !url.password().isEmpty())
    req.setRawHeader("Authorization", "Basic " + QString(url.userName() + ":" + url.password()).toAscii().toBase64());