diff --git a/requests_unixsocket/adapters.py b/requests_unixsocket/adapters.py
index 83e1400..f0e270a 100644
--- a/requests_unixsocket/adapters.py
+++ b/requests_unixsocket/adapters.py
@@ -18,16 +18,15 @@
 # https://github.com/docker/docker-py/blob/master/docker/transport/unixconn.py
 class UnixHTTPConnection(httplib.HTTPConnection, object):
 
-    def __init__(self, unix_socket_url, timeout=60):
+    def __init__(self, unix_socket_url):
         """Create an HTTP connection to a unix domain socket
 
         :param unix_socket_url: A URL with a scheme of 'http+unix' and the
         netloc is a percent-encoded path to a unix domain socket. E.g.:
         'http+unix://%2Ftmp%2Fprofilesvc.sock/status/pid'
         """
-        super(UnixHTTPConnection, self).__init__('localhost', timeout=timeout)
+        super(UnixHTTPConnection, self).__init__('localhost')
         self.unix_socket_url = unix_socket_url
-        self.timeout = timeout
         self.sock = None
 
     def __del__(self):  # base class does not have d'tor
@@ -44,21 +43,18 @@ def connect(self):
 
 class UnixHTTPConnectionPool(urllib3.connectionpool.HTTPConnectionPool):
 
-    def __init__(self, socket_path, timeout=60):
-        super(UnixHTTPConnectionPool, self).__init__(
-            'localhost', timeout=timeout)
+    def __init__(self, socket_path):
+        super(UnixHTTPConnectionPool, self).__init__('localhost')
         self.socket_path = socket_path
-        self.timeout = timeout
 
     def _new_conn(self):
-        return UnixHTTPConnection(self.socket_path, self.timeout)
+        return UnixHTTPConnection(self.socket_path)
 
 
 class UnixAdapter(HTTPAdapter):
 
-    def __init__(self, timeout=60, pool_connections=25, *args, **kwargs):
+    def __init__(self, pool_connections=25, *args, **kwargs):
         super(UnixAdapter, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
-        self.timeout = timeout
         self.pools = urllib3._collections.RecentlyUsedContainer(
             pool_connections, dispose_func=lambda p: p.close()
         )
@@ -76,7 +72,7 @@ def get_connection(self, url, proxies=None):
             if pool:
                 return pool
 
-            pool = UnixHTTPConnectionPool(url, self.timeout)
+            pool = UnixHTTPConnectionPool(url)
             self.pools[url] = pool
 
         return pool
diff --git a/timeout_socket_server.py b/timeout_socket_server.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b9ddaa8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/timeout_socket_server.py
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+import socket
+import time
+import os
+
+server_address = './uds_socket'
+
+# Make sure the socket does not already exist
+try:
+    os.unlink(server_address)
+except OSError:
+    if os.path.exists(server_address):
+        raise
+
+sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_UNIX, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
+print('starting up on {}'.format(server_address))
+sock.bind(server_address)
+sock.listen(1)
+
+while True:
+    print('\nwaiting for a connection')
+
+    connection, client_address = sock.accept()
+    connection.settimeout(300)
+
+    try:
+        print('connected')
+        connect_time = time.time()
+        while True:
+            try:
+                data = connection.recv(640)
+                if not data:
+                    elapsed_time = int(time.time() - connect_time)
+                    print(f'no data after {elapsed_time}s')
+                    break
+            except socket.timeout as exc:
+                elapsed_time = int(time.time() - connect_time)
+                print(f'timeout after {elapsed_time}s on recv')
+                break
+    finally:
+        connection.close()