diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 5aa8812e..6f62ea2d 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -8,3 +8,4 @@ script: 'npm run-script build && npm test'
 before_install:
  - sudo apt-get update -qq
  - sudo apt-get install -qq libgif-dev libpng-dev libjpeg8-dev libpango1.0-dev libcairo2-dev
+ - '[ "${TRAVIS_NODE_VERSION}" = "0.6" ] && npm conf set strict-ssl false || true'