mxcl/homebrew — pull request #12313 by bugQ (2012-05-18 16:10:07+00:00)
Title: node needs openssl >= 1.0.0

Apple has deprecated the use of OpenSSL and has not updated it from 0.9.8r for years.
Without this, using the request module to contact certain SSL servers will fail with the SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO error, indicating missing encryption routines.