How do I make php's curl accept SSLv3?

I have the following code:

curl_setopt($this->curl_handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($this->curl_handle, CURLOPT_SSLVERSION,'all'); 
curl_setopt($this->curl_handle, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

    // set the file to be uploaded
    if (!curl_setopt($this->curl_handle, CURLOPT_FILE, $fp_to_download)) {
        throw new Exception("Could not download file $local_file");
    }

    // download file
    try {
        if (!curl_exec($this->curl_handle)) {
            throw new Exception(sprintf('Could not download file. cURL Error: [%s] - %s', curl_errno($this->curl_handle), curl_error($this->curl_handle)));
        }
    } catch (Exception $e) {
        $error_msg = $e->getMessage();
        // Fallback to cUrl upload
        if (strpos($error_msg, 'SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO')) {
            return $this->curlProcessHandler('ftp://'.preg_replace('#/+#', '/', $this->server.':'.$this->port.'/'.$remote_file), $local_file);
        } else {
            throw new Exception("Could not download file $remote_file: $error_msg");
        }
    }

When I have curl_setopt($this->curl_handle, CURLOPT_SSLVERSION,'all');, it returns the error:

Could not download file. cURL Error: [35] - error:1408F10B:SSL routines:ssl3_get_record:wrong version number

And when I have curl_setopt($this->curl_handle, CURLOPT_SSLVERSION,'3');, I get a different error:

Could not download file. cURL Error: [4] - OpenSSL was built without SSLv3 support

It seems like my version of OpenSSL doesn't support SSLv3, and I don't know how to fix this. I've tried different methods of changing my openssl version, but none of them worked.