diff --git a/src/mod/xml_int/mod_xml_curl/mod_xml_curl.c b/src/mod/xml_int/mod_xml_curl/mod_xml_curl.c
index 453114e583..15ad1f069a 100644
--- a/src/mod/xml_int/mod_xml_curl/mod_xml_curl.c
+++ b/src/mod/xml_int/mod_xml_curl/mod_xml_curl.c
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ static switch_xml_t xml_url_fetch(const char *section, const char *tag_name, con
 #ifdef CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS
 			curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT_MS, binding->timeout_ms);
 #else
-			curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, binding->timeout_ms);
+			curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, (binding->timeout_ms / 1000) ? (binding->timeout_ms / 1000) : 1);
 #endif
 			curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL, 1);
 		}