diff --git a/wcurl.php b/wcurl.php
index 757b321..a9d3e27 100644
--- a/wcurl.php
+++ b/wcurl.php
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ function wcurl_setopts($ch, $method, $payload, $request_headers, $curl_opts)
 				CURLOPT_USERAGENT => 'wcurl',
 				CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 30,
 				CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
+        			CURLOPT_SSLVERSION => 3,
 			);
 
 			if ('GET' == $method)
@@ -94,4 +95,4 @@ function wcurl_response_headers($msg_header)
 			return $response_headers;
 		}
 
-?>
\ No newline at end of file
+?>