diff --git a/src/pyload/core/config/default.cfg b/src/pyload/core/config/default.cfg
index 5ca85a1053..bd7b0f58c7 100644
--- a/src/pyload/core/config/default.cfg
+++ b/src/pyload/core/config/default.cfg
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ general - "General":
     debug;trace;stack debug_level : "Debug level" = trace
     int min_free_space : "Minimum free space in MiB" = 1024
     bool folder_per_package : "Create folder for each package" = True
+    bool ssl_verify : "Peer's SSL certificate verification" = True
 permission - "Permissions":
     bool change_user : "Change user of running process" = False
     str user : "Username for ownership" = user
diff --git a/src/pyload/core/network/http/http_request.py b/src/pyload/core/network/http/http_request.py
index 05a08b99fb..fe5d099005 100644
--- a/src/pyload/core/network/http/http_request.py
+++ b/src/pyload/core/network/http/http_request.py
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ def init_handle(self):
         self.c.setopt(pycurl.NOPROGRESS, 1)
         if hasattr(pycurl, "AUTOREFERER"):
             self.c.setopt(pycurl.AUTOREFERER, 1)
-        self.c.setopt(pycurl.SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0)
+        self.c.setopt(pycurl.SSL_VERIFYPEER, 1)
         self.c.setopt(pycurl.LOW_SPEED_TIME, 60)
         self.c.setopt(pycurl.LOW_SPEED_LIMIT, 5)
         if hasattr(pycurl, "USE_SSL"):
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ def init_handle(self):
 
         self.c.setopt(
             pycurl.USERAGENT,
-            b"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.113 Safari/537.36",
+            b"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/109.0",
         )
         if pycurl.version_info()[7]:
             self.c.setopt(pycurl.ENCODING, b"gzip, deflate")
@@ -174,6 +174,9 @@ def set_interface(self, options):
         if "timeout" in options:
             self.c.setopt(pycurl.LOW_SPEED_TIME, int(options["timeout"]))
 
+        if "ssl_verify" in options:
+            self.c.setopt(pycurl.SSL_VERIFYPEER, 1 if options["ssl_verify"] else 0)
+
     def add_cookies(self):
         """
         put cookies from curl handle to cj.
diff --git a/src/pyload/core/network/request_factory.py b/src/pyload/core/network/request_factory.py
index 48832554ef..197c39aca2 100644
--- a/src/pyload/core/network/request_factory.py
+++ b/src/pyload/core/network/request_factory.py
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ def get_options(self):
             "interface": self.iface(),
             "proxies": self.get_proxies(),
             "ipv6": self.pyload.config.get("download", "ipv6"),
+            "ssl_verify": self.pyload.config.get("general", "ssl_verify"),
         }
 
     def update_bucket(self):