diff --git a/history.md b/history.md
index a721eaa..292f4e8 100644
--- a/history.md
+++ b/history.md
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 - add response body in Exception#inspect
 - add support for RestClient.options
 - fix tests for 1.9.2 (patch provided by Niko Dittmann)
+- block passing in Resource#[] (patch provided by Niko Dittmann)
 
 # 1.6.0
 
diff --git a/lib/restclient/resource.rb b/lib/restclient/resource.rb
index 6d551a2..31d18a8 100644
--- a/lib/restclient/resource.rb
+++ b/lib/restclient/resource.rb
@@ -130,8 +130,13 @@ module RestClient
     #   comments = first_post['comments']
     #   comments.post 'Hello', :content_type => 'text/plain'
     #
-    def [](suburl)
-      self.class.new(concat_urls(url, suburl), options)
+    def [](suburl, &new_block)
+      case
+        when block_given? then self.class.new(concat_urls(url, suburl), options, &new_block)
+        when block        then self.class.new(concat_urls(url, suburl), options, &block)
+      else
+        self.class.new(concat_urls(url, suburl), options)
+      end
     end
 
     def concat_urls(url, suburl) # :nodoc:
diff --git a/spec/base.rb b/spec/base.rb
index 51fba66..965a6e2 100644
--- a/spec/base.rb
+++ b/spec/base.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
-Encoding.default_internal = Encoding.default_external = "ASCII-8BIT" if RUBY_VERSION == '1.9.1' or RUBY_VERSION == '1.9.2'
+def is_ruby_19?
+  RUBY_VERSION == '1.9.1' or RUBY_VERSION == '1.9.2'
+end
+
+Encoding.default_internal = Encoding.default_external = "ASCII-8BIT" if is_ruby_19?
 
 require 'rubygems'
 require 'spec'
diff --git a/spec/resource_spec.rb b/spec/resource_spec.rb
index c833982..18fadbc 100644
--- a/spec/resource_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/resource_spec.rb
@@ -72,6 +72,31 @@ describe RestClient::Resource do
     parent['posts'].password.should == 'password'
   end
 
+  it "passes a given block to subresources" do
+    block = Proc.new{|r| r}
+    parent = RestClient::Resource.new('http://example.com', &block)
+    parent['posts'].block.should == block
+  end
+
+  it "the block should be overrideable" do
+    block1 = Proc.new{|r| r}
+    block2 = Proc.new{|r| r}
+    parent = RestClient::Resource.new('http://example.com', &block1)
+    # parent['posts', &block2].block.should == block2 # ruby 1.9 syntax
+    parent.send(:[], 'posts', &block2).block.should == block2
+  end
+
+  it "the block should be overrideable in ruby 1.9 syntax" do
+    block = Proc.new{|r| r}
+    parent = RestClient::Resource.new('http://example.com', &block)
+    r19_syntax = %q{
+      parent['posts', &->(r){r}].block.should_not == block
+    }
+    is_ruby_19?
+      eval(r19_syntax)
+    end
+  end
+
   it "prints its url with to_s" do
     RestClient::Resource.new('x').to_s.should == 'x'
   end