diff --git a/docs/authentication.md b/docs/authentication.md
index eaa7ea5d7..574a49cc0 100755
--- a/docs/authentication.md
+++ b/docs/authentication.md
@@ -27,5 +27,5 @@ Note that POST/PUT can also take a data parameter, so you also need that
 before `$options`:
 
 ```php
-Requests::get('http://httpbin.org/basic-auth/user/password', array(), null, $options);
-```
\ No newline at end of file
+Requests::post('http://httpbin.org/basic-auth/user/password', array(), null, $options);
+```