Need to change ssl default to ssl 3
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The core of the problem with my computer is seen when I use curl. If I type:

curl -i https://the_web_site_i_need.com

then it times out after a minute and prints:

curl: (35) Unknown SSL protocol error in connection to the_web_site_I_need.com:443 

but if I type:

curl -3i https://the_web_site_i_need.com

it gives me what I'm asking for. The problem (I found after much googling) seems to be that my default ssl protocol is 2, rather than 3, and the target refuses to accept it. This wouldn't be a problem, but I'm running a python script, which makes nested calls to many libraries which are running into this problem down the line. Rather than rewrite my company's libs (which I'm underqualified to do), I'd rather just change my defaults.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Again, this is Mac OSX 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard). Neither googling nor searching this site seems to bring me to this particular problem.