diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 65ef6022dd..bdafb83cb0 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Tue Jun 24 16:47:07 2003  Minero Aoki  <aamine@loveruby.net>
+
+	* lib/net/http.rb (HTTPHeader#proxy_basic_auth): missing `@'.
+	  Thanks Douglas Koszerek. (ruby-bugs:PR975)
+
 Tue Jun 24 14:31:17 2003  Minero Aoki  <aamine@loveruby.net>
 
 	* config.guess: have wrongly returned "alphaev56-unknown-linux-"
diff --git a/lib/net/http.rb b/lib/net/http.rb
index b7054464b8..65424bd61b 100644
--- a/lib/net/http.rb
+++ b/lib/net/http.rb
@@ -1152,7 +1152,7 @@ module Net
     end
 
     def proxy_basic_auth( account, password )
-      header['proxy-authorization'] = basic_encode(account, password)
+      @header['proxy-authorization'] = basic_encode(account, password)
     end
 
     def basic_encode( account, password )