On Wed, 8 Aug 2012, Sean Wyatt wrote:

> The curl manpage (and man output) lists the following in the --ciphers
> option:
>
> "NSS ciphers are done differently than OpenSSL and GnuTLS. The full list of
> NSS ciphers is in the NSSCipherSuite entry at this URL:
> http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/docs/mod_nss.html#Directives"
>
> Assuming a bad URL would be an issue/bug with the documentation.

See the left-most names in the list shown here:

https://github.com/bagder/curl/blob/master/lib/nss.c#L107

> What I would like to do is edit my .curlrc file to use all ciphers so my
> curl requests do not receive SSL errors.

You should not receive SSL error even if you're not specifying ciphers.

> I've also been unable to find a good example of the .curlrc file so any
> guidance there would be appreciated.

I figure something like this should work:

   ciphers="rc4-md5,fortezza_rc4_128_sha"

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se
-------------------------------------------------------------------
List admin: http://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-users
FAQ:        http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html
Etiquette:  http://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html