diff --git a/wp-includes/class-http.php b/wp-includes/class-http.php
index 683552d5f0..2ae0245b1e 100644
--- a/wp-includes/class-http.php
+++ b/wp-includes/class-http.php
@@ -1190,7 +1190,7 @@ class WP_Http_Curl {
 
 		curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
 		curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
-		curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, $ssl_verify );
+		curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, ( $ssl_verify === true ) ? 2 : false );
 		curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, $ssl_verify );
 		curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $r['user-agent'] );
 		curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, $r['redirection'] );