diff --git a/linkedin.inc b/linkedin.inc
index f22ae05..ce79663 100644
--- a/linkedin.inc
+++ b/linkedin.inc
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ function _linkedin_http_request($url, $header, $body = NULL) {
   $ch = curl_init();
 
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
-  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
+  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 1);
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array($header));
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);