cURL error 59: failed setting cipher list

recieved on newly configured server with abysmally bad hosting support

my curl_setopt looks like

   curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
   curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
   curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_PORT, '443');
   curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, true);
   curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
   curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] );
   curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
   curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30);
   curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST, "rsa_rc4_128_sha");
                                           //required as of November 2012

Any ideas? Thanks.

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