1 Long: ssl-allow-beast 2 Help: Allow security flaw to improve interop 3 Added: 7.25.0 4 Category: tls 5 Example: --ssl-allow-beast $URL 6 --- 7 This option tells curl to not work around a security flaw in the SSL3 and 8 TLS1.0 protocols known as BEAST. If this option is not used, the SSL layer 9 may use workarounds known to cause interoperability problems with some older 10 SSL implementations. 11 12 **WARNING**: this option loosens the SSL security, and by using this flag you 13 ask for exactly that. 14