diff --git a/conf/vanilla/autoload_configs/httapi.conf.xml b/conf/vanilla/autoload_configs/httapi.conf.xml
index e19210b4da..c3566d148a 100644
--- a/conf/vanilla/autoload_configs/httapi.conf.xml
+++ b/conf/vanilla/autoload_configs/httapi.conf.xml
@@ -105,6 +105,8 @@
 	<!-- <param name="ssl-key-password" value="MyPrivateKeyPassword"/> -->
 	<!-- optional timeout -->
 	<!-- <param name="timeout" value="10"/> -->
+	<!-- optional: maximum amount of time in seconds that is allowed to make the connection to the server -->
+	<!-- <param name="connect-timeout" value="2"/> -->
 
 	<!-- optional: use a custom CA certificate in PEM format to verify the peer
 	     with. This is useful if you are acting as your own certificate authority.
diff --git a/src/mod/applications/mod_httapi/conf/autoload_configs/httapi.conf.xml b/src/mod/applications/mod_httapi/conf/autoload_configs/httapi.conf.xml
index e643566703..1aa4377c58 100644
--- a/src/mod/applications/mod_httapi/conf/autoload_configs/httapi.conf.xml
+++ b/src/mod/applications/mod_httapi/conf/autoload_configs/httapi.conf.xml
@@ -105,6 +105,8 @@
 	<!-- <param name="ssl-key-password" value="MyPrivateKeyPassword"/> -->
 	<!-- optional timeout -->
 	<!-- <param name="timeout" value="10"/> -->
+	<!-- optional: maximum amount of time in seconds that is allowed to make the connection to the server -->
+	<!-- <param name="connect-timeout" value="2"/> -->
 
 	<!-- optional: use a custom CA certificate in PEM format to verify the peer
 	     with. This is useful if you are acting as your own certificate authority.
diff --git a/src/mod/applications/mod_httapi/docs/mod_httapi_doc.txt b/src/mod/applications/mod_httapi/docs/mod_httapi_doc.txt
index b313dc5e15..1fdb3b4d39 100644
--- a/src/mod/applications/mod_httapi/docs/mod_httapi_doc.txt
+++ b/src/mod/applications/mod_httapi/docs/mod_httapi_doc.txt
@@ -319,6 +319,8 @@ auth-scheme                     : <string               >               basic
 disable-100-continue            : <true|false>          true            Disable the 100 continue feature.
 method                          : <string>              ""              METHOD name to send.
 timeout                         : <number>              0               Timeout waiting for response.
+connect-timeout                 : <number>              0               Timeout to create connection. Use default value 0 to switch to the
+                                                                        default built-in connection timeout - 300 seconds.
 enable-cacert-check             : <true|false>          false           Check CA/CERT.
 ssl-cert-path                   : <string>              ""              path to file.
 ssl-key-path                    : <string>              ""              path to file.
diff --git a/src/mod/applications/mod_httapi/mod_httapi.c b/src/mod/applications/mod_httapi/mod_httapi.c
index b0e4e4803c..7413a39e4a 100644
--- a/src/mod/applications/mod_httapi/mod_httapi.c
+++ b/src/mod/applications/mod_httapi/mod_httapi.c
@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ typedef struct client_profile_s {
 	switch_hash_t *vars_map;
 	long auth_scheme;
 	int timeout;
+	int connect_timeout;
 	profile_perms_t perms;
 	char *ua;
 
@@ -1610,6 +1611,10 @@ static switch_status_t httapi_sync(client_t *client)
 		switch_curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, client->profile->timeout);
 	}
 
+	if (client->profile->connect_timeout) {
+		switch_curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, client->profile->connect_timeout);
+	}
+
 	if (client->profile->ssl_cert_file) {
 		switch_curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_SSLCERT, client->profile->ssl_cert_file);
 	}
@@ -1759,6 +1764,7 @@ static switch_status_t do_config(void)
 		char *method = NULL;
 		int disable100continue = 1;
 		int timeout = 0;
+		int connect_timeout = 0;
 		uint32_t enable_cacert_check = 0;
 		char *ssl_cert_file = NULL;
 		char *ssl_key_file = NULL;
@@ -1824,6 +1830,13 @@ static switch_status_t do_config(void)
 					} else {
 						switch_log_printf(SWITCH_CHANNEL_LOG, SWITCH_LOG_ERROR, "Can't set a negative timeout!\n");
 					}
+				} else if (!strcasecmp(var, "connect-timeout")) {
+					int tmp = atoi(val);
+					if (tmp >= 0) {
+						connect_timeout = tmp;
+					} else {
+						switch_log_printf(SWITCH_CHANNEL_LOG, SWITCH_LOG_ERROR, "Can't set a negative connect-timeout!\n");
+					}
 				} else if (!strcasecmp(var, "enable-cacert-check") && switch_true(val)) {
 					enable_cacert_check = 1;
 				} else if (!strcasecmp(var, "ssl-cert-path")) {
@@ -2091,6 +2104,7 @@ static switch_status_t do_config(void)
 
 		profile->auth_scheme = auth_scheme;
 		profile->timeout = timeout;
+		profile->connect_timeout = connect_timeout;
 		profile->url = switch_core_strdup(globals.pool, url);
 		switch_assert(profile->url);
 
@@ -2544,6 +2558,10 @@ static switch_status_t fetch_cache_data(http_file_context_t *context, const char
 		switch_curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, client->profile->timeout);
 	}
 
+	if (client->profile->connect_timeout) {
+		switch_curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, client->profile->connect_timeout);
+	}
+
 	if (client->profile->ssl_cert_file) {
 		switch_curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_SSLCERT, client->profile->ssl_cert_file);
 	}