title: passing ciphers to libcurl through git?
body: <p>Environment: Fedora 15 x64 (yes, we are moving away from it), git 1.7.11.1.</p>
  
  <p>We're hitting a problem with git clone which fails on an https repository because the cipher that's used by the Git server isn't enabled by default on the client.</p>
  
  <p>We managed to replicate the problem with plain "curl -v" (curl 7.21.3, but git seems to be using its own copy):</p>
  
  <pre><code>curl -v https://git.repo.com
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>(the internal server name was replaced) fails like Git, but:</p>
  
  <pre><code>curl --cipher rsa_rc4_128_sha -v https://git.repo.com
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>succeeds.</p>
  
  <p>The question now is how can we pass such a flag to libcurl which is used by Git. So far I haven't found such a way (google'd about libcurl, git, looked at Git's and libcurl's sources).</p>