Index: wp-includes/functions.php
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--- wp-includes/functions.php	(revision 10829)
+++ wp-includes/functions.php	(working copy)
@@ -2743,6 +2743,7 @@
 		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, true);
 		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
 		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
+		curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5);
 
 		curl_exec($ch);
 
@@ -3145,4 +3146,4 @@
 }
 
 
-?>
\ No newline at end of file
+?>