diff --git a/src/httpcommon.h b/src/httpcommon.h
index 7c86ecb4a56..8b9799943b4 100644
--- a/src/httpcommon.h
+++ b/src/httpcommon.h
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ namespace http {
   );
 
   int reload_user_creds(const std::string &file);
-  bool download_file(const std::string &url, const std::string &file, long ssl_version = CURL_SSLVERSION_TLSv1_3);
+  bool download_file(const std::string &url, const std::string &file, long ssl_version = CURL_SSLVERSION_TLSv1_2);
   std::string url_escape(const std::string &url);
   std::string url_get_host(const std::string &url);