diff --git a/cacertupload.pl b/cacertupload.pl
index 0ee299b..4c883c8 100644
--- a/cacertupload.pl
+++ b/cacertupload.pl
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(agent => 'Translingo Client 1.0');
 use HTTP::Request::Common qw(POST);
 
 $ua->cookie_jar({});
+$ua->timeout(10000);
 
 my $req = POST 'http://translingo.cacert.org/login.php',
 [