diff --git a/src/slic3r/Utils/Http.cpp b/src/slic3r/Utils/Http.cpp
index b5dd178f03..7df1a81171 100644
--- a/src/slic3r/Utils/Http.cpp
+++ b/src/slic3r/Utils/Http.cpp
@@ -164,7 +164,9 @@ Http::priv::priv(const std::string &url)
 	::curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, url.c_str());   // curl makes a copy internally
 	::curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, SLIC3R_APP_NAME "/" SLIC3R_VERSION);
 	::curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER, &error_buffer.front());
-
+#ifdef __WINDOWS__
+	::curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSLVERSION, CURL_SSLVERSION_MAX_TLSv1_2);
+#endif
 	::curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0L);
 	::curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0L);
 }