diff --git a/twitter-stream.gemspec b/twitter-stream.gemspec
index d914d5f..a6f077d 100644
--- a/twitter-stream.gemspec
+++ b/twitter-stream.gemspec
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
 
   s.add_runtime_dependency('eventmachine', ">= 0.12.8")
   s.add_runtime_dependency('simple_oauth', '~> 0.2.0')
-  s.add_runtime_dependency('http_parser.rb', '~> 0.5.1')
+  s.add_runtime_dependency('http_parser.rb', '~> 0.6.0')
   s.add_development_dependency('rspec', "~> 2.5.0")
 
   s.files         = `git ls-files`.split("\n")