diff --git a/requests/adapters.py b/requests/adapters.py
index 43addb1b..dd10e959 100644
--- a/requests/adapters.py
+++ b/requests/adapters.py
@@ -286,10 +286,6 @@ class HTTPAdapter(BaseAdapter):
         username, password = get_auth_from_url(proxy)
 
         if username and password:
-            # Proxy auth usernames and passwords will be urlencoded, we need
-            # to decode them.
-            username = unquote(username)
-            password = unquote(password)
             headers['Proxy-Authorization'] = _basic_auth_str(username,
                                                              password)
 
diff --git a/requests/utils.py b/requests/utils.py
index 7a4d44d5..7b7ff0a7 100644
--- a/requests/utils.py
+++ b/requests/utils.py
@@ -634,12 +634,14 @@ def except_on_missing_scheme(url):
 def get_auth_from_url(url):
     """Given a url with authentication components, extract them into a tuple of
     username,password."""
-    if url:
-        url = unquote(url)
-        parsed = urlparse(url)
-        return (parsed.username, parsed.password)
-    else:
-        return ('', '')
+    parsed = urlparse(url)
+
+    try:
+        auth = (unquote(parsed.username), unquote(parsed.password))
+    except (AttributeError, TypeError):
+        auth = ('', '')
+
+    return auth
 
 
 def to_native_string(string, encoding='ascii'):
diff --git a/test_requests.py b/test_requests.py
index 1e8e723f..63897bb5 100755
--- a/test_requests.py
+++ b/test_requests.py
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ class RequestsTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
         assert r.json()['cookies']['foo'] == 'bar'
         # Make sure the session cj is still the custom one
         assert s.cookies is cj
-    
+
     def test_param_cookiejar_works(self):
         cj = cookielib.CookieJar()
         cookiejar_from_dict({'foo' : 'bar'}, cj)
@@ -702,9 +702,13 @@ class RequestsTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
         assert ('user', 'pass pass') == requests.utils.get_auth_from_url(url)
 
     def test_get_auth_from_url_percent_chars(self):
-        url = 'http://user%user:pass@complex.url.com/path?query=yes'
+        url = 'http://user%25user:pass@complex.url.com/path?query=yes'
         assert ('user%user', 'pass') == requests.utils.get_auth_from_url(url)
 
+    def test_get_auth_from_url_encoded_hashes(self):
+        url = 'http://user:pass%23pass@complex.url.com/path?query=yes'
+        assert ('user', 'pass#pass') == requests.utils.get_auth_from_url(url)
+
     def test_cannot_send_unprepared_requests(self):
         r = requests.Request(url=HTTPBIN)
         with pytest.raises(ValueError):
@@ -1092,6 +1096,16 @@ class UtilsTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
         assert address_in_network('192.168.1.1', '192.168.1.0/24')
         assert not address_in_network('172.16.0.1', '192.168.1.0/24')
 
+    def test_get_auth_from_url(self):
+        """ Ensures that username and password in well-encoded URI as per RFC 3986 are correclty extracted """
+        from requests.utils import get_auth_from_url
+        from requests.compat import quote
+        percent_encoding_test_chars = "%!*'();:@&=+$,/?#[] "
+        url_address = "request.com/url.html#test"
+        url = "http://" + quote(percent_encoding_test_chars, '') + ':' + quote(percent_encoding_test_chars, '') + '@' + url_address
+        (username, password) = get_auth_from_url(url)
+        assert username == percent_encoding_test_chars
+        assert password == percent_encoding_test_chars
 
 
 class TestMorselToCookieExpires(unittest.TestCase):