diff --git a/openerp/service/server.py b/openerp/service/server.py
index f2d67c000ef..c111af01093 100644
--- a/openerp/service/server.py
+++ b/openerp/service/server.py
@@ -773,6 +773,7 @@ class WorkerHTTP(Worker):
     """ HTTP Request workers """
     def process_request(self, client, addr):
         client.setblocking(1)
+        client.settimeout(0.5)
         client.setsockopt(socket.IPPROTO_TCP, socket.TCP_NODELAY, 1)
         # Prevent fd inherientence close_on_exec
         flags = fcntl.fcntl(client, fcntl.F_GETFD) | fcntl.FD_CLOEXEC