Safari 6.0.1 cannot load video or audio that requires basic authentication

When I browse to a URL for a .mp3 requiring basic authentication (username and password), the player does not load it.  An unprotected .mp3 on the same site loads and plays fine.  When inspecting the page containing the player, I see an HTML5 <video> element with the correct source URL and MIME type.  When I do the Bad Thing (TM) of putting the username and password into the URL, as in http://username:password@site... , the src URL in the <video> element contains the username and password, but the audio file still fails to load.
This is occurring on the latest update of Safari and Mountain Lion on a Macbook Pro.
Is there some workaround for this problem, besides using Chrome, which works fine on these audio URLs?

I've seen reports of this problem going all the way back to Safari version 5.0.5 and it's still present in 6.0.4. How is this not fixed by now? Does anyone have a workaround that doesn't require putting the video in an unprotected directory?
-Terry

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