Index: parser_common_syndication.module
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--- parser_common_syndication.module	(revision 15356)
+++ parser_common_syndication.module	(working copy)
@@ -187,6 +187,10 @@
     curl_setopt($download, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
     curl_setopt($download, CURLOPT_HEADER, TRUE);
     curl_setopt($download, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
+
+    // hack to work with non-kosher ssl rss feeds
+    curl_setopt($download, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
+
     $header = '';
     $data = curl_exec($download);
     $header_size = curl_getinfo($download, CURLINFO_HEADER_SIZE);