diff --git a/brozzler/worker.py b/brozzler/worker.py
index 0a2c6bc..4955f2c 100644
--- a/brozzler/worker.py
+++ b/brozzler/worker.py
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ class BrozzlerWorker:
         request.set_proxy(warcprox_address, "http")
 
         try:
-            with urllib.request.urlopen(request) as response:
+            with urllib.request.urlopen(request, timeout=600) as response:
                 if response.getcode() != 204:
                     self.logger.warn(
                             'got "%s %s" response on warcprox '
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 5af20cc..99d524c 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ def find_package_data(package):
 
 setuptools.setup(
         name='brozzler',
-        version='1.1b12.dev275',
+        version='1.1b12.dev276',
         description='Distributed web crawling with browsers',
         url='https://github.com/internetarchive/brozzler',
         author='Noah Levitt',