diff --git a/src/httpcommon.cpp b/src/httpcommon.cpp
index 355ab6e9a92..5be5d9ba97f 100644
--- a/src/httpcommon.cpp
+++ b/src/httpcommon.cpp
@@ -217,6 +217,7 @@ namespace http {
     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, url.c_str());
     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, fwrite);
     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, fp);
+    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSLVERSION, CURL_SSLVERSION_TLSv1_2);
 #ifdef _WIN32
     curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSL_OPTIONS, CURLSSLOPT_NATIVE_CA);
 #endif