diff --git a/wagon-providers/wagon-http-shared/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/wagon/shared/http/AbstractHttpClientWagon.java b/wagon-providers/wagon-http-shared/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/wagon/shared/http/AbstractHttpClientWagon.java
index b0740f5..47f1794 100755
--- a/wagon-providers/wagon-http-shared/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/wagon/shared/http/AbstractHttpClientWagon.java
+++ b/wagon-providers/wagon-http-shared/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/wagon/shared/http/AbstractHttpClientWagon.java
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 import org.apache.http.HttpHost;
 import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
 import org.apache.http.HttpStatus;
+import org.apache.http.auth.AuthSchemeProvider;
 import org.apache.http.auth.AuthScope;
 import org.apache.http.auth.ChallengeState;
 import org.apache.http.auth.Credentials;
@@ -33,6 +34,7 @@
 import org.apache.http.client.AuthCache;
 import org.apache.http.client.CredentialsProvider;
 import org.apache.http.client.HttpRequestRetryHandler;
+import org.apache.http.client.config.AuthSchemes;
 import org.apache.http.client.config.CookieSpecs;
 import org.apache.http.client.config.RequestConfig;
 import org.apache.http.client.methods.CloseableHttpResponse;
@@ -52,6 +54,9 @@
 import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLInitializationException;
 import org.apache.http.entity.AbstractHttpEntity;
 import org.apache.http.impl.auth.BasicScheme;
+import org.apache.http.impl.auth.BasicSchemeFactory;
+import org.apache.http.impl.auth.DigestSchemeFactory;
+import org.apache.http.impl.auth.NTLMSchemeFactory;
 import org.apache.http.impl.client.BasicAuthCache;
 import org.apache.http.impl.client.BasicCredentialsProvider;
 import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
@@ -445,6 +450,15 @@ RETRY_HANDLER_COUNT, RETRY_HANDLER_REQUEST_SENT_ENABLED, getNonRetryableExceptio
         }
     }
 
+    private static Registry<AuthSchemeProvider> createAuthSchemeRegistry()
+    {
+        return RegistryBuilder.<AuthSchemeProvider>create()
+            .register( AuthSchemes.BASIC, new BasicSchemeFactory() )
+            .register( AuthSchemes.DIGEST, new DigestSchemeFactory() )
+            .register( AuthSchemes.NTLM, new NTLMSchemeFactory() )
+            .build();
+    }
+
     private static Collection<Class<? extends IOException>> getNonRetryableExceptions()
     {
         final List<Class<? extends IOException>> exceptions = new ArrayList<>();
@@ -472,6 +486,7 @@ private static CloseableHttpClient createClient()
             .disableConnectionState() //
             .setConnectionManager( httpClientConnectionManager ) //
             .setRetryHandler( createRetryHandler() )
+            .setDefaultAuthSchemeRegistry( createAuthSchemeRegistry() )
             .build();
     }