node-mysql2: insecureAuth support (was: bad handshake)

Output: ‘Query error: Bad handshake’

Server: MySQL server 5.0.95 (Linux)

Code:

var mysql = require('mysql2');

var config = {
  host: '127.0.0.1',
  user: 'user',
  password: 'password',
  database: 'database',
  typeCast: false,
  supportBigNumbers: true,
  bigNumberStrings: true,
  insecureAuth: true
}, c;

function doConnect() {
  c = mysql.createConnection(config);
  c.connect(function(err) {
    console.log('Client connected');
  });
  c.on('error', function(err) {
    if (err.code === 'PROTOCOL_CONNECTION_LOST') {
      console.log('Disconnected -- reconnecting ...');
      doConnect();
    } else
      throw err;
  });
}

function doQuery() {
  var count = 0;

  console.log('starting query ...');

  c.query('select * from foo')
   .on('error', function(err) {
     console.log('Query error: ' + err);
   })
   .on('result', function(row) {
     ++count;
   })
   .once('end', function(info) {
     console.log('Query finished successfully');
     console.log(count + ' rows');
   });
}

doConnect();
doQuery();