Merge pull request #4038 from MikeMcQuaid/insecure-installation

docs/Installation: note curl usage on <=10.7.
Homebrew · Apr 8, 2018 · e2e1d09 · e2e1d09
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 ## Alternative Installs
 
+### OS X Lion 10.7 and below
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+Using the instructions on https://brew.sh or below whenever you call `curl` you must pass `--insecure` as an argument. This is because your system `curl` is too old to speak to GitHub using HTTPS. Don't worry, on the first `brew update` Homebrew will install a newer, more secure `curl` for your machine.
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 ### Untar anywhere
 Just extract (or `git clone`) Homebrew wherever you want. Just
 avoid: