diff --git a/src/Unirest/Request.php b/src/Unirest/Request.php
index 9f96eeb..cf0368c 100644
--- a/src/Unirest/Request.php
+++ b/src/Unirest/Request.php
@@ -416,7 +416,8 @@ class Request
             CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => self::getFormattedHeaders($headers),
             CURLOPT_HEADER => true,
             CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => self::$verifyPeer,
-            CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST => self::$verifyHost,
+            //CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST accepts only 0 (false) or 2 (true). Future versions of libcurl will treat values 1 and 2 as equals
+            CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST => self::$verifyHost === false ? 0 : 2,
             // If an empty string, '', is set, a header containing all supported encoding types is sent
             CURLOPT_ENCODING => ''
         ));