diff --git a/src/future/http/HTTPSFuture.php b/src/future/http/HTTPSFuture.php
--- a/src/future/http/HTTPSFuture.php
+++ b/src/future/http/HTTPSFuture.php
@@ -321,6 +321,10 @@
       }
 
       curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSLVERSION, 0);
+
+      // We must manually set cipher list for some curl versions.
+      // See http://sourceforge.net/p/curl/bugs/1323/#1816 for details.
+      curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST, "RC4-SHA");
     } else {
       $curl = $this->handle;