diff -r 65f2c92ed079 Lib/urllib/request.py
--- a/Lib/urllib/request.py	Sun Jul 07 23:30:24 2013 +0200
+++ b/Lib/urllib/request.py	Tue Jul 09 13:32:38 2013 +1000
@@ -272,6 +272,7 @@
         self.origin_req_host = origin_req_host
         self.unverifiable = unverifiable
         self.method = method
+        self.timeout = socket._GLOBAL_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT
 
     @property
     def full_url(self):