curl: (35) error:1408F10B:SSL routines:ssl3_get_record:wrong version number

Question

When I try to connect to any server (e.g. google.com) using curl (or libcurl) I get the error message:

curl: (35) error:1408F10B:SSL routines:ssl3_get

Answer 1

More simply in one line:

proxy=192.168.2.1:8080;curl -v example.com

eg. $proxy=192.168.2.1:8080;curl -v example.com

xxxxxxxxx-ASUS:~$ proxy=192.168.2.1:8080;curl -v https://google.com|head -c 15 % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0

• Trying 172.217.163.46:443...
• TCP_NODELAY set
• Connected to google.com (172.217.163.46) port 443 (#0)
• ALPN, offering h2
• ALPN, offering http/1.1
• successfully set certificate verify locations:
• CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt CApath: /etc/ssl/certs } [5 bytes data]
• TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1): } [512 bytes data]