# Method: PHPCrawler::setConnectionTimeout()

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Sets the timeout in seconds for connection tries to hosting webservers.
Signature:

public setConnectionTimeout($timeout)

Parameters:

$timeout | int | The timeout in seconds, the default-value is 5 seconds.

Returns:

bool |

Description:

If the the connection to a host can't be established within the given time, the
request will be aborted.