diff --git a/config.default.ini.php b/config.default.ini.php
index 147a0ca4..c1627aac 100644
--- a/config.default.ini.php
+++ b/config.default.ini.php
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 timezone = "UTC"
 
 [http]
+timeout = 60
 useragent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.169 Safari/537.36"
 
 [cache]
diff --git a/docs/03_For_Hosts/08_Custom_Configuration.md b/docs/03_For_Hosts/08_Custom_Configuration.md
index d8583a06..afc5eb2e 100644
--- a/docs/03_For_Hosts/08_Custom_Configuration.md
+++ b/docs/03_For_Hosts/08_Custom_Configuration.md
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ __Notice__: If a parameter is not specified in your `config.ini.php` RSS-Bridge
 The configuration file is split into sections:
 
 * [system](#system)
+* [http client](#http client)
 * [cache](#cache)
 * [proxy](#proxy)
 * [authentication](#authentication)
@@ -25,6 +26,8 @@ The configuration file is split into sections:
 
 _System_: This section specifies system specific parameters
 
+_Http client_: This section has http client options
+
 _Cache_: This section is all about the caching behavior of RSS-Bridge
 
 _Proxy_: This section can be used to specify a proxy server for RSS-Bridge to utilize for fetching contents
@@ -98,6 +101,21 @@ Allow users to disable proxy usage for specific requests.
 
 `false` = disabled (default)
 
+## Http client
+
+This section provides the following parameters:
+
+- timeout
+- useragent
+
+### timeout
+
+Default network timeout.
+
+### useragent
+
+Default user agent.
+
 ## Authentication
 
 This section provides following parameters:
diff --git a/lib/contents.php b/lib/contents.php
index a5591c33..afbf7168 100644
--- a/lib/contents.php
+++ b/lib/contents.php
@@ -169,6 +169,7 @@ function getContents($url, $header = array(), $opts = array(), $returnHeader = f
 		}
 
 		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, Configuration::getConfig('http', 'useragent'));
+		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, Configuration::getConfig('http', 'timeout'));
 		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING, '');
 		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS, CURLPROTO_HTTP | CURLPROTO_HTTPS);