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