diff --git a/lib/ocsclient.php b/lib/ocsclient.php
index 283f95d5851638f44379dca80197b2a2c4583177..795ce30190c407ccbf9aab94c4bb6845d2d185d3 100644
--- a/lib/ocsclient.php
+++ b/lib/ocsclient.php
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ class OC_OCSClient{
             
             curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
             curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
+            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 10);
             curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
             
             $data = curl_exec($curl);