Simple readXML which requires authentication

Hi, I have a web application which gets data from clients via XML. Up to now
I used the DataSet.readXML("http://xmlURL.xml";) to get and parse xml content
into my database.

Now one of my clients has placed his XML on a server that requires
authentication and has provided the username and password.

I tried the following: http://<username>:<password>@ xmlURL.xml
It works if I enter the above in Firefox for example
It doesn't work though in neither of those:

IE 6 and programmatically via the application (which uses DataSet.readXML
("http://<username>:<password>@ xmlURL.xml")).

In IE I get a file not found error,
And in the application run I get a 401 unauthorized error.

My questions are:

Can I use the simple (I suppose insecure way) http://<username>:<password>@...
by maybe changing the application configuration?

What other options do I have?

Thanks in advance,
Albert

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