diff --git a/min/lib/HTTP/Encoder.php b/min/lib/HTTP/Encoder.php
index 93c7a80..6f4683e 100644
--- a/min/lib/HTTP/Encoder.php
+++ b/min/lib/HTTP/Encoder.php
@@ -36,6 +36,23 @@
  */
 class HTTP_Encoder {
 
+    /**
+     * Should the encoder allow HTTP encoding to IE6? 
+     * 
+     * If you have many IE6 users and the bandwidth savings is worth troubling 
+     * some of them, set this to true.
+     * 
+     * By default, encoding is only offered to IE7+. When this is true,
+     * getAcceptedEncoding() will return an encoding for IE6 if its user agent
+     * string contains "SV1". This has been documented in many places as "safe",
+     * but there seem to be remaining, intermittent encoding bugs in patched 
+     * IE6 on the wild web.
+     * 
+     * @var int
+     */
+    public static $encodeToIe6 = false;
+    
+    
     /**
      * Default compression level for zlib operations
      * 
@@ -44,6 +61,7 @@ class HTTP_Encoder {
      * @var int
      */
     public static $compressionLevel = 6;
+    
 
     /**
      * Get an HTTP Encoder object
@@ -258,9 +276,8 @@ class HTTP_Encoder {
         }
         // no regex = faaast
         $version = (float)substr($ua, 30); 
-        return (
-            $version < 6
-            || ($version == 6  && false === strpos($ua, 'SV1'))
-        );
+        return self::$encodeToIe6
+            ? ($version < 6 || ($version == 6 && false === strpos($ua, 'SV1')))
+            : ($version < 7);
     }
 }
diff --git a/min_extras/unit_tests/_test_files/importProcessor/output.css b/min_extras/unit_tests/_test_files/importProcessor/output.css
index 695964a..1f690af 100644
--- a/min_extras/unit_tests/_test_files/importProcessor/output.css
+++ b/min_extras/unit_tests/_test_files/importProcessor/output.css
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 @media screen {
 /* some CSS to try to exercise things in general */
 
-@import     url(/_3rd_party/minify/min_extras/unit_tests/_test_files/css/more.css);
+@import     url(%TEST_FILES_URI%/css/more.css);
 
     body, td, th {
         font-family: Verdana , "Bitstream Vera Sans" , sans-serif ;
@@ -32,17 +32,17 @@ h1 + p {
 }
 @import url(http://example.com/hello.css);
 adjacent foo { background: red url(/red.gif); }
-adjacent bar { background: url('/_3rd_party/minify/min_extras/unit_tests/_test_files/importProcessor/../green.gif') }
+adjacent bar { background: url('%TEST_FILES_URI%/importProcessor/../green.gif') }
 }
 
 @media tv,projection {
-/* @import url('/_3rd_party/minify/min_extras/unit_tests/_test_files/importProcessor/1/bad.css') bad; */
+/* @import url('%TEST_FILES_URI%/importProcessor/1/bad.css') bad; */
 adjacent2 foo { background: red url(/red.gif); }
-adjacent2 bar { background: url('/_3rd_party/minify/min_extras/unit_tests/_test_files/importProcessor/1/../green.gif') }
+adjacent2 bar { background: url('%TEST_FILES_URI%/importProcessor/1/../green.gif') }
 @import '../input.css';
 tv foo { background: red url(/red.gif); }
-tv bar { background: url('/_3rd_party/minify/min_extras/unit_tests/_test_files/importProcessor/1/../green.gif') }
+tv bar { background: url('%TEST_FILES_URI%/importProcessor/1/../green.gif') }
 }
 
 input foo { background: red url(/red.gif); }
-input bar { background: url('/_3rd_party/minify/min_extras/unit_tests/_test_files/importProcessor/../green.gif') }
\ No newline at end of file
+input bar { background: url('%TEST_FILES_URI%/importProcessor/../green.gif') }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/min_extras/unit_tests/test_HTTP_Encoder.php b/min_extras/unit_tests/test_HTTP_Encoder.php
index 3a114ad..d16b762 100644
--- a/min_extras/unit_tests/test_HTTP_Encoder.php
+++ b/min_extras/unit_tests/test_HTTP_Encoder.php
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ function test_HTTP_Encoder()
 {
     global $thisDir;
     
+    HTTP_Encoder::$encodeToIe6 = true;
     $methodTests = array(
         array(
             'ua' => 'Any browser'
@@ -51,7 +52,28 @@ function test_HTTP_Encoder()
             ,'desc' => 'Opera identifying as IE6'
         )
     );
-    
+    foreach ($methodTests as $test) {
+        $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] = $test['ua'];
+        $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING'] = $test['ae'];
+        $exp = $test['exp'];
+        $ret = HTTP_Encoder::getAcceptedEncoding();
+        $passed = assertTrue($exp == $ret, 'HTTP_Encoder : ' . $test['desc']);
+        
+        if (__FILE__ === realpath($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'])) {
+            echo "\n--- AE | UA = {$test['ae']} | {$test['ua']}\n";
+            echo "Expected = " . preg_replace('/\\s+/', ' ', var_export($exp, 1)) . "\n";
+            echo "Returned = " . preg_replace('/\\s+/', ' ', var_export($ret, 1)) . "\n\n";
+        }
+    }
+    HTTP_Encoder::$encodeToIe6 = false;
+    $methodTests = array(
+        array(
+            'ua' => 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)'
+            ,'ae' => 'gzip, deflate'
+            ,'exp' => array('', '')
+            ,'desc' => 'IE6 w/ "enhanced security"'
+        )
+    );
     foreach ($methodTests as $test) {
         $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] = $test['ua'];
         $_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING'] = $test['ae'];