diff --git a/dev-ruby/net-http-pipeline/files/net-http-pipeline-accept-encoding.patch b/dev-ruby/net-http-pipeline/files/net-http-pipeline-accept-encoding.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..3adfdf28afdc2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-ruby/net-http-pipeline/files/net-http-pipeline-accept-encoding.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+--- test/test_net_http_pipeline.rb.old	2016-11-17 07:58:57.284997283 +0100
++++ test/test_net_http_pipeline.rb	2016-11-17 07:58:50.345168508 +0100
+@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@
+   def http_get
+     get = []
+     get << 'GET / HTTP/1.1'
++    get << 'Accept-Encoding: gzip;q=1.0,deflate;q=0.6,identity;q=0.3'
+     get << 'Accept: */*'
+     get << 'User-Agent: Ruby' if RUBY_VERSION > '1.9'
+     get.push nil, nil
+@@ -106,6 +107,7 @@
+   def http_post
+     get = []
+     get << 'POST / HTTP/1.1'
++    get << 'Accept-Encoding: gzip;q=1.0,deflate;q=0.6,identity;q=0.3'
+     get << 'Accept: */*'
+     get << 'User-Agent: Ruby' if RUBY_VERSION > '1.9'
+     get.push nil, nil
diff --git a/dev-ruby/net-http-pipeline/net-http-pipeline-1.0.1.ebuild b/dev-ruby/net-http-pipeline/net-http-pipeline-1.0.1.ebuild
index f9cfa202eab62..fe348b5ee4720 100644
--- a/dev-ruby/net-http-pipeline/net-http-pipeline-1.0.1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-ruby/net-http-pipeline/net-http-pipeline-1.0.1.ebuild
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # $Id$
 
 EAPI=5
-USE_RUBY="ruby20 ruby21"
+USE_RUBY="ruby20 ruby21 ruby22 ruby23"
 RUBY_FAKEGEM_RECIPE_DOC="rdoc"
 
 inherit ruby-fakegem
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ SLOT="1"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64"
 IUSE=""
 
+RUBY_PATCHES=( ${PN}-accept-encoding.patch )
+
 ruby_add_bdepend "
 	dev-ruby/hoe
 	test? ( dev-ruby/minitest )