git over https and http 1.1

I am using git with https as the transport protocol.
Response times were around 30 seconds before apache started processing the
backend command.
I added the flags   [BrowserMatch "git"      downgrade-1.0
force-response-1.0] to the apache conf file, and response times were fast.
This seems to mean that the libcurl library is not dealing correctly with
HTTP 1/1 over SSL. Is this the best fix?
If so, maybe appropriate documentation should be added to the git setup
docs.


-Nirf