diff --git a/include/export/json.hpp b/include/export/json.hpp
index 1afa662..40b8e88 100644
--- a/include/export/json.hpp
+++ b/include/export/json.hpp
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ namespace Export
     using std::string;
 
     /*!
-     *  @brief  Export as JSON array.
+     *  @brief  Export as %JSON array.
      *
      *  @since  0.8.0
      *
diff --git a/include/export/rss.hpp b/include/export/rss.hpp
index 8fe9495..4840f03 100644
--- a/include/export/rss.hpp
+++ b/include/export/rss.hpp
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ namespace Export
     using std::string;
 
     /*!
-     *  @brief  Export as RSS feed.
+     *  @brief  Export as %RSS feed.
      *
      *  @since  0.8.0
      *
diff --git a/man/remwharead.1.adoc b/man/remwharead.1.adoc
index 8aa89dd..1de1ca1 100644
--- a/man/remwharead.1.adoc
+++ b/man/remwharead.1.adoc
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 :doctype:       manpage
 :Author:        tastytea
 :Email:         tastytea@tastytea.de
-:Date:          2019-09-06
+:Date:          2019-09-20
 :Revision:      0.0.0
 :man source:    remwharead
 :man manual:    General Commands Manual
@@ -160,8 +160,10 @@ Currently only HTTP and HTTPS are supported.
 == PROXY SUPPORT
 
 *remwharead* supports HTTP proxies set via the environment variable
-_http_proxy_. Accepted formats are _http://host:port/_ or _host:port_. No SOCKS
-proxy support yet, sorry.
+_http_proxy_. Accepted formats are: _\http://[user[:password]@]host[:port]/_ or
+_[user[:password]@]host[:port]_. No SOCKS proxy support yet, sorry.
+
+Example: http_proxy="http://localhost:3128/"
 
 == FILES
 
diff --git a/src/lib/uri.cpp b/src/lib/uri.cpp
index 3953400..02ed9ca 100644
--- a/src/lib/uri.cpp
+++ b/src/lib/uri.cpp
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ namespace remwharead
     using std::unique_ptr;
     using std::make_unique;
     using std::vector;
+    using std::cerr;
+    using std::endl;
     using Poco::Net::HTTPClientSession;
     using Poco::Net::HTTPSClientSession;
     using Poco::Net::HTTPRequest;
@@ -67,31 +69,37 @@ namespace remwharead
         try
         {
             HTTPClientSession::ProxyConfig proxy;
-            string proxy_env = Environment::get("http_proxy");
-            size_t pos;
+            const string env_proxy = Environment::get("http_proxy");
+            const RegEx re_proxy("^(?:https?://)?(?:([^:]+):?([^@]*)@)?"
+                                 "([^:/]+)(?::([\\d]{1,5}))?/?$");
+            vector<string> matches;
 
-            // Only keep text between // and /.
-            if ((pos = proxy_env.find("//")) != string::npos)
+            if (re_proxy.split(env_proxy, matches) >= 4)
             {
-                proxy_env = proxy_env.substr(pos + 2);
+                proxy.username = matches[1];
+                proxy.password = matches[2];
+                proxy.host = matches[3];
+                if (!matches[4].empty())
+                {
+                    const std::uint32_t &port = std::stoul(matches[4]);
+                    if (port > 65535)
+                    {
+                        throw std::invalid_argument("Port number out of range");
+                    }
+                    proxy.port = port;
+                }
             }
-            if ((pos = proxy_env.find('/')) != string::npos)
-            {
-                proxy_env = proxy_env.substr(0, pos);
-            }
-
-            if ((pos = proxy_env.find(':')) != string::npos)
-            {
-                proxy.host = proxy_env.substr(0, pos);
-                proxy.port = std::stoi(proxy_env.substr(pos + 1));
-            }
-            else
-            {
-                proxy.host = proxy_env;
-            }
-
             HTTPClientSession::setGlobalProxyConfig(proxy);
         }
+        catch (const Poco::RegularExpressionException &e)
+        {
+            cerr << "Error: Proxy could not be set ("
+                 << e.displayText() << ")\n";
+        }
+        catch (const std::invalid_argument &e)
+        {
+            cerr << "Error: " << e.what() << endl;
+        }
         catch (const std::exception &)
         {
             // No proxy found, no problem.