curl error:1407742E:SSL

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I'm getting the error below when fetching from pypi. Can I force use of MP's curl instead of OS X (10.8)'s?

--->  Attempting to fetch cffi-1.11.0.tar.gz from https://distfiles.macports.org/py-cffi
DEBUG: Fetching distfile failed: The requested URL returned error: 404
--->  Attempting to fetch cffi-1.11.0.tar.gz from https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source/c/cffi
DEBUG: Fetching distfile failed: error:1407742E:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:tlsv1 alert protocol version