When connecting to an https server force use of TLS or SSLv3?

When svn attempts to connect to an https URL, the underlying protocol
library (openssl?) attempts to start the secure protocol negotiation at
the most basic level, plain SSL.

Unfortunately, I have to connect to a server that requires SSL3 or
TLS1, and refuses to respond to SSL or SSL2.

I've done some troubleshooting using s_client and confirmed that if I
let s_client start with the default protocol the server never responds
to the CLIENT HELLO:

    $ openssl s_client -connect server.domain.com:443
    CONNECTED(00000003)
    write:errno=104
    ---
    no peer certificate available
    ---
    No client certificate CA names sent
    ---
    SSL handshake has read 0 bytes and written 320 bytes
    ---
    New, (NONE), Cipher is (NONE)
    Secure Renegotiation IS NOT supported
    Compression: NONE
    Expansion: NONE
    ---

Watching this in Wireshark I see:

    Client Server
        -------syn---------->
        <------ack-----------
        ---CLIENT HELLO----->
        <------ack-----------
          [60 second pause]
        <------rst-----------

If I tell s_client to use ssl2 the server immediately closes the
connection. Only ssl3 and tls1 work.

Is there any way to tell subversion to tell the underlying ssl
libraries to skip SSL and SSL2, and start the negotiation with TLS or
SSL3? I've looked for an OpenSSL config file, but that seems to
control only certificate generation.
Received on 2012-06-07 23:20:03 CEST