diff --git a/API.md b/API.md
index bf190b2a..5ca8159f 100644
--- a/API.md
+++ b/API.md
@@ -352,6 +352,7 @@ The request variable is defined as:
  * http_verb:                 http method (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, etc.), use '*' to match all http methods
  * http_url:                  url used to call this callback function or full url to call when used in a ulfius_send_http_request
  * check_server_certificate:  do not check server certificate and hostname if false (default true), used by ulfius_send_http_request
+ * timeout                    connection timeout used by ulfius_send_http_request, default is 0
  * client_address:            IP address of the client
  * auth_basic_user:           basic authtication username
  * auth_basic_password:       basic authtication password
@@ -370,6 +371,7 @@ struct _u_request {
   char *               http_verb;
   char *               http_url;
   int                  check_server_certificate;
+  long                 timeout;
   struct sockaddr *    client_address;
   char *               auth_basic_user;
   char *               auth_basic_password;
diff --git a/src/u_request.c b/src/u_request.c
index 2f90106f..97cea46e 100644
--- a/src/u_request.c
+++ b/src/u_request.c
@@ -228,6 +228,7 @@ int ulfius_init_request(struct _u_request * request) {
     u_map_init(request->map_post_body);
     request->http_verb = NULL;
     request->http_url = NULL;
+    request->timeout = 0L;
     request->check_server_certificate = 1;
     request->client_address = NULL;
     request->json_body = NULL;
@@ -319,6 +320,7 @@ struct _u_request * ulfius_duplicate_request(const struct _u_request * request)
         memcpy(new_request->client_address, request->client_address, sizeof(struct sockaddr));
       }
       new_request->check_server_certificate = request->check_server_certificate;
+      new_request->timeout = request->timeout;
       new_request->auth_basic_user = nstrdup(request->auth_basic_user);
       new_request->auth_basic_password = nstrdup(request->auth_basic_password);
       u_map_clean_full(new_request->map_url);
diff --git a/src/u_send_request.c b/src/u_send_request.c
index 6d961ee1..080641d0 100644
--- a/src/u_send_request.c
+++ b/src/u_send_request.c
@@ -487,6 +487,17 @@ int ulfius_send_http_streaming_request(const struct _u_request * request, struct
         }
       }
       
+      // Set request timeout value
+      if (copy_request->timeout) {
+        if (curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, copy_request->timeout) != CURLE_OK) {
+          ulfius_clean_request_full(copy_request);
+          curl_slist_free_all(header_list);
+          curl_easy_cleanup(curl_handle);
+          y_log_message(Y_LOG_LEVEL_ERROR, "Ulfius - Error setting libcurl options (5)");
+          return U_ERROR_LIBCURL;
+        }
+      }
+      
       // Response parameters
       if (response != NULL) {
         if (response->map_header != NULL) {
diff --git a/src/ulfius.h b/src/ulfius.h
index c27cd71d..f968fe49 100644
--- a/src/ulfius.h
+++ b/src/ulfius.h
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ struct _u_cookie {
  * http_verb:                 http method (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, etc.), use '*' to match all http methods
  * http_url:                  url used to call this callback function or full url to call when used in a ulfius_send_http_request
  * check_server_certificate:  do not check server certificate and hostname if false (default true), used by ulfius_send_http_request
+ * timeout                    connection timeout used by ulfius_send_http_request, default is 0
  * client_address:            IP address of the client
  * auth_basic_user:           basic authtication username
  * auth_basic_password:       basic authtication password
@@ -124,6 +125,7 @@ struct _u_request {
   char *               http_verb;
   char *               http_url;
   int                  check_server_certificate;
+  long                 timeout;
   struct sockaddr *    client_address;
   char *               auth_basic_user;
   char *               auth_basic_password;