diff --git a/src/main/java/com/github/dockerjava/api/command/DockerCmdExecFactory.java b/src/main/java/com/github/dockerjava/api/command/DockerCmdExecFactory.java
index 8b9880747..9894466d4 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/github/dockerjava/api/command/DockerCmdExecFactory.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/github/dockerjava/api/command/DockerCmdExecFactory.java
@@ -2,12 +2,14 @@
 
 import java.io.Closeable;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.List;
 
 import com.github.dockerjava.core.DockerClientConfig;
+import com.github.dockerjava.core.http.AbstractHttpFeature;
 
 public interface DockerCmdExecFactory extends Closeable {
 
-	public void init(DockerClientConfig dockerClientConfig);
+	public void init(DockerClientConfig dockerClientConfig, List<AbstractHttpFeature> httpFeatures);
 
 	public AuthCmd.Exec createAuthCmdExec();
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/github/dockerjava/core/DockerClientBuilder.java b/src/main/java/com/github/dockerjava/core/DockerClientBuilder.java
index 4aa7d5ac7..bc6ec8dd9 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/github/dockerjava/core/DockerClientBuilder.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/github/dockerjava/core/DockerClientBuilder.java
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 package com.github.dockerjava.core;
 
+import java.util.List;
 import java.util.ServiceLoader;
 
 import com.github.dockerjava.api.DockerClient;
 import com.github.dockerjava.api.command.DockerCmdExecFactory;
 import com.github.dockerjava.core.DockerClientConfig.DockerClientConfigBuilder;
+import com.github.dockerjava.core.http.AbstractHttpFeature;
 
 public class DockerClientBuilder {
 	
@@ -30,6 +32,11 @@ public static DockerClientBuilder getInstance(DockerClientConfig dockerClientCon
 				.getInstance(dockerClientConfig));
 	}
 
+	public static DockerClientBuilder getInstance(DockerClientConfig dockerClientConfig, List<AbstractHttpFeature> httpFeatures) {
+		return new DockerClientBuilder(DockerClientImpl
+				.getInstance(dockerClientConfig, httpFeatures));
+	}
+
 	public static DockerClientBuilder getInstance(String serverUrl) {
 		return new DockerClientBuilder(DockerClientImpl
 				.getInstance(serverUrl));
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/github/dockerjava/core/DockerClientImpl.java b/src/main/java/com/github/dockerjava/core/DockerClientImpl.java
index 7e96225f8..017733d7d 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/github/dockerjava/core/DockerClientImpl.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/github/dockerjava/core/DockerClientImpl.java
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
 
 import com.github.dockerjava.api.DockerClient;
 import com.github.dockerjava.api.command.*;
@@ -13,6 +15,7 @@
 import com.github.dockerjava.api.model.AuthConfigurations;
 import com.github.dockerjava.api.model.Identifier;
 import com.github.dockerjava.core.command.*;
+import com.github.dockerjava.core.http.AbstractHttpFeature;
 
 /**
  * @author Konstantin Pelykh (kpelykh@gmail.com)
@@ -22,6 +25,7 @@
 public class DockerClientImpl implements Closeable, DockerClient {
 
 	private final DockerClientConfig dockerClientConfig;
+	private List<AbstractHttpFeature> httpFeatures = new ArrayList<>();
 
 	private DockerCmdExecFactory dockerCmdExecFactory;
 
@@ -39,6 +43,15 @@ private DockerClientImpl(DockerClientConfig dockerClientConfig) {
 		this.dockerClientConfig = dockerClientConfig;
 	}
 
+	private DockerClientImpl(DockerClientConfig dockerClientConfig, List<AbstractHttpFeature> httpFeatures) {
+		checkNotNull(dockerClientConfig,
+				"config was not specified");
+		checkNotNull(httpFeatures,
+				"http features were not specified");
+		this.dockerClientConfig = dockerClientConfig;
+		this.httpFeatures = httpFeatures;
+	}
+
 	private static DockerClientConfig configWithServerUrl(String serverUrl) {
 		return DockerClientConfig.createDefaultConfigBuilder()
 				.withUri(serverUrl).build();
@@ -53,6 +66,11 @@ public static DockerClientImpl getInstance(
 		return new DockerClientImpl(dockerClientConfig);
 	}
 
+	public static DockerClientImpl getInstance(
+			DockerClientConfig dockerClientConfig, List<AbstractHttpFeature> httpFeatures) {
+		return new DockerClientImpl(dockerClientConfig, httpFeatures);
+	}
+
 	public static DockerClientImpl getInstance(String serverUrl) {
 		return new DockerClientImpl(serverUrl);
 	}
@@ -62,7 +80,7 @@ public DockerClientImpl withDockerCmdExecFactory(
 		checkNotNull(dockerCmdExecFactory,
 				"dockerCmdExecFactory was not specified");
 		this.dockerCmdExecFactory = dockerCmdExecFactory;
-		this.dockerCmdExecFactory.init(dockerClientConfig);
+		this.dockerCmdExecFactory.init(dockerClientConfig, httpFeatures);
 		return this;
 	}
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/github/dockerjava/core/http/AbstractHttpFeature.java b/src/main/java/com/github/dockerjava/core/http/AbstractHttpFeature.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5ff093369
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/java/com/github/dockerjava/core/http/AbstractHttpFeature.java
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+package com.github.dockerjava.core.http;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import javax.ws.rs.client.ClientRequestContext;
+import javax.ws.rs.client.ClientRequestFilter;
+
+public abstract class AbstractHttpFeature implements ClientRequestFilter {
+	
+	@Override
+	public abstract void filter(ClientRequestContext requestContext) throws IOException;
+	public abstract Map<String, Object> getClientConfigurationProperties();
+}
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/github/dockerjava/core/http/HttpBasicAuthenticationFeature.java b/src/main/java/com/github/dockerjava/core/http/HttpBasicAuthenticationFeature.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0754a4138
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/java/com/github/dockerjava/core/http/HttpBasicAuthenticationFeature.java
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+package com.github.dockerjava.core.http;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.TreeMap;
+
+import javax.ws.rs.client.ClientRequestContext;
+import javax.ws.rs.core.MultivaluedMap;
+import javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter;
+
+import org.glassfish.jersey.client.ClientProperties;
+import org.glassfish.jersey.client.RequestEntityProcessing;
+
+public class HttpBasicAuthenticationFeature extends AbstractHttpFeature {
+
+    private final String user;
+    private final String password;
+
+    public HttpBasicAuthenticationFeature(String user, String password) {
+        this.user = user;
+        this.password = password;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void filter(ClientRequestContext requestContext) throws IOException {
+        MultivaluedMap<String, Object> headers = requestContext.getHeaders();
+        final String basicAuthentication = getBasicAuthentication();
+        headers.add("Authorization", basicAuthentication);
+
+    }
+
+    private String getBasicAuthentication() {
+        String token = this.user + ":" + this.password;
+        try {
+            return "BASIC " + DatatypeConverter.printBase64Binary(token.getBytes("UTF-8"));
+        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException ex) {
+            throw new IllegalStateException("Cannot encode with UTF-8", ex);
+        }
+    }
+
+	@Override
+	public Map<String, Object> getClientConfigurationProperties() {
+		Map<String, Object> map = new TreeMap<String, Object>();
+		map.put(ClientProperties.REQUEST_ENTITY_PROCESSING, RequestEntityProcessing.BUFFERED);
+		return map;
+	}
+}
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/github/dockerjava/jaxrs/DockerCmdExecFactoryImpl.java b/src/main/java/com/github/dockerjava/jaxrs/DockerCmdExecFactoryImpl.java
index bc3afecad..30558dae1 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/github/dockerjava/jaxrs/DockerCmdExecFactoryImpl.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/github/dockerjava/jaxrs/DockerCmdExecFactoryImpl.java
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.net.URI;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
 
 import com.github.dockerjava.api.command.*;
 
@@ -29,6 +31,7 @@
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.jaxrs.json.JacksonJsonProvider;
 import com.github.dockerjava.api.DockerClientException;
 import com.github.dockerjava.core.DockerClientConfig;
+import com.github.dockerjava.core.http.AbstractHttpFeature;
 import com.github.dockerjava.core.util.FollowRedirectsFilter;
 import com.github.dockerjava.core.util.JsonClientFilter;
 import com.github.dockerjava.core.util.ResponseStatusExceptionFilter;
@@ -41,8 +44,8 @@ public class DockerCmdExecFactoryImpl implements DockerCmdExecFactory {
 	private Client client;
 	private WebTarget baseResource;
 
-	@Override
-	public void init(DockerClientConfig dockerClientConfig) {
+    @Override
+    public void init(DockerClientConfig dockerClientConfig, List<AbstractHttpFeature> httpFeatures) {
 		checkNotNull(dockerClientConfig, "config was not specified");
 
 		ClientConfig clientConfig = new ClientConfig();
@@ -92,6 +95,13 @@ public void init(DockerClientConfig dockerClientConfig) {
 
 		clientConfig.property(ApacheClientProperties.CONNECTION_MANAGER,
 				connManager);
+		
+        for(AbstractHttpFeature feature : httpFeatures){
+        	Map<String, Object> properties = feature.getClientConfigurationProperties();
+        	for(String propertyName : properties.keySet()){
+        		clientConfig.property(propertyName, properties.get(propertyName));
+        	}
+		}
 
 		ClientBuilder clientBuilder = ClientBuilder.newBuilder().withConfig(
 				clientConfig);
@@ -106,6 +116,11 @@ public void init(DockerClientConfig dockerClientConfig) {
 			dockerClientConfig.setUri(UnixConnectionSocketFactory
 					.sanitizeUri(originalUri));
 		}
+
+        for(AbstractHttpFeature feature : httpFeatures){
+			client.register(feature);
+		}
+        
 		WebTarget webResource = client.target(dockerClientConfig.getUri());
 
 		if (dockerClientConfig.getVersion() == null
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/github/dockerjava/core/TestDockerCmdExecFactory.java b/src/test/java/com/github/dockerjava/core/TestDockerCmdExecFactory.java
index 869a12fcf..34a8d4184 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/github/dockerjava/core/TestDockerCmdExecFactory.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/github/dockerjava/core/TestDockerCmdExecFactory.java
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 
 import com.github.dockerjava.api.command.*;
 import com.github.dockerjava.api.command.AuthCmd.Exec;
+import com.github.dockerjava.core.http.AbstractHttpFeature;
 import com.github.dockerjava.jaxrs.BuildImageCmdExec;
 
 /**
@@ -31,8 +32,8 @@ public TestDockerCmdExecFactory(DockerCmdExecFactory delegate) {
 	}
 
 	@Override
-	public void init(DockerClientConfig dockerClientConfig) {
-		delegate.init(dockerClientConfig);
+	public void init(DockerClientConfig dockerClientConfig, List<AbstractHttpFeature> httpFeatures) {
+		delegate.init(dockerClientConfig, httpFeatures);
 	}
 
 	@Override