diff --git a/SDWebImage/SDWebImageDownloader.h b/SDWebImage/SDWebImageDownloader.h
index 3d0921c6..03e1558b 100644
--- a/SDWebImage/SDWebImageDownloader.h
+++ b/SDWebImage/SDWebImageDownloader.h
@@ -73,6 +73,13 @@ typedef void(^SDWebImageDownloaderCompletedBlock)(UIImage *image, NSData *data,
 
 @property (readonly, nonatomic) NSUInteger currentDownloadCount;
 
+
+/**
+ *  The timeout value (in seconds) for the download operation. Default: 15.0.
+ */
+@property (assign, nonatomic) NSTimeInterval downloadTimeout;
+
+
 /**
  * Changes download operations execution order. Default value is `SDWebImageDownloaderFIFOExecutionOrder`.
  */
diff --git a/SDWebImage/SDWebImageDownloader.m b/SDWebImage/SDWebImageDownloader.m
index dcc303ef..4cf59571 100644
--- a/SDWebImage/SDWebImageDownloader.m
+++ b/SDWebImage/SDWebImageDownloader.m
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ static NSString *const kCompletedCallbackKey = @"completed";
         _URLCallbacks = NSMutableDictionary.new;
         _HTTPHeaders = [NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithObject:@"image/webp,image/*;q=0.8" forKey:@"Accept"];
         _barrierQueue = dispatch_queue_create("com.hackemist.SDWebImageDownloaderBarrierQueue", DISPATCH_QUEUE_CONCURRENT);
+        _downloadTimeout = 15.0;
     }
     return self;
 }
@@ -121,8 +122,13 @@ static NSString *const kCompletedCallbackKey = @"completed";
 
     [self addProgressCallback:progressBlock andCompletedBlock:completedBlock forURL:url createCallback:^
     {
+        NSTimeInterval timeoutInterval = wself.downloadTimeout;
+        if (timeoutInterval == 0.0) {
+            timeoutInterval = 15.0;
+        }
+        
         // In order to prevent from potential duplicate caching (NSURLCache + SDImageCache) we disable the cache for image requests if told otherwise
-        NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest.alloc initWithURL:url cachePolicy:(options & SDWebImageDownloaderUseNSURLCache ? NSURLRequestUseProtocolCachePolicy : NSURLRequestReloadIgnoringLocalCacheData) timeoutInterval:15];
+        NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest.alloc initWithURL:url cachePolicy:(options & SDWebImageDownloaderUseNSURLCache ? NSURLRequestUseProtocolCachePolicy : NSURLRequestReloadIgnoringLocalCacheData) timeoutInterval:timeoutInterval];
         request.HTTPShouldHandleCookies = (options & SDWebImageDownloaderHandleCookies);
         request.HTTPShouldUsePipelining = YES;
         if (wself.headersFilter)