diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index c9a3f0897..56fb51130 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ Eduard Wirch
 Edwin Woudt
 Eli Tucker
 Emmanuel Bourg
+Eugène Adell
 Eric Barboni
 Eric Olsen
 Eric Pugh
diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
index 6a6f302da..0ec0b5114 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW
+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -96,6 +96,11 @@ Other changes:
    the library behind the sshexec and scp Ant tasks.
    Github Pull Request #84
 
+ * The "http" condition, now has a "readTimeout" attribute which can be
+   used to control the amount of time to wait for the read to complete.
+   Bugzilla Report 63193
+
+
 Changes from Ant 1.10.4 TO Ant 1.10.5
 =====================================
 
diff --git a/contributors.xml b/contributors.xml
index 960f2db6f..a8e53ab94 100644
--- a/contributors.xml
+++ b/contributors.xml
@@ -547,6 +547,10 @@
     <first>Emmanuel</first>
     <last>Bourg</last>
   </name>
+  <name>
+    <first>Eugène</first>
+    <last>Adell</last>
+  </name>
   <name>
     <first>Eric</first>
     <last>Olsen</last>
diff --git a/manual/Tasks/conditions.html b/manual/Tasks/conditions.html
index 92799551c..d1d2e4519 100644
--- a/manual/Tasks/conditions.html
+++ b/manual/Tasks/conditions.html
@@ -215,6 +215,15 @@ URL. By default, HTTP responses errors of 400 or greater are viewed as invalid.<
     <td>Whether redirects should be followed.<br/><em>since Ant 1.9.7</em></td>
     <td>No; default is <q>true</q></td>
   </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>readTimeout</td>
+    <td>Read timeout, in milli second, that will be used while reading from the target URL.
+      Accepts any value >= 0. Value of 0 implies wait indefinitely. Value < 0 will be silently
+      ignored.<br/>
+      <em>since Ant 1.10.6</em></td>
+    </td>
+    <td>No; defaults to <q>0</q></td>
+  </tr>
 </table>
 
 <h4 id="socket">socket</h4>
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/condition/Http.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/condition/Http.java
index de9317475..7ce6aa129 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/condition/Http.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/condition/Http.java
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import java.net.MalformedURLException;
 import java.net.ProtocolException;
 import java.net.URL;
 import java.net.URLConnection;
+import java.net.SocketTimeoutException;
 import java.util.Locale;
 
 import org.apache.tools.ant.BuildException;
@@ -35,6 +36,7 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.ProjectComponent;
  *   url - the URL of the request.
  *   errorsBeginAt - number at which errors begin at; default=400.
  *   requestMethod - HTTP request method to use; GET, HEAD, etc. default=GET
+ *   readTimeout - The read timeout in ms. default=0
  * @since Ant 1.5
  */
 public class Http extends ProjectComponent implements Condition {
@@ -46,6 +48,7 @@ public class Http extends ProjectComponent implements Condition {
     private boolean followRedirects = true;
 
     private int errorsBeginAt = ERROR_BEGINS;
+    private int readTimeout = 0;
 
     /**
      * Set the url attribute
@@ -92,6 +95,20 @@ public class Http extends ProjectComponent implements Condition {
         followRedirects = f;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Sets the read timeout. Any value < 0 will be ignored
+     *
+     * @param t the timeout value in milli seconds
+     *
+     * @see java.net.HttpURLConnection#setReadTimeout
+     * @since Ant 1.10.6
+     */
+    public void setReadTimeout(int t) {
+        if(t >= 0) {
+            this.readTimeout = t;
+        }
+    }
+
     /**
      * @return true if the HTTP request succeeds
      * @exception BuildException if an error occurs
@@ -110,6 +127,7 @@ public class Http extends ProjectComponent implements Condition {
                     HttpURLConnection http = (HttpURLConnection) conn;
                     http.setRequestMethod(requestMethod);
                     http.setInstanceFollowRedirects(followRedirects);
+                    http.setReadTimeout(readTimeout);
                     int code = http.getResponseCode();
                     log("Result code for " + spec + " was " + code,
                         Project.MSG_VERBOSE);
@@ -118,6 +136,8 @@ public class Http extends ProjectComponent implements Condition {
             } catch (ProtocolException pe) {
                 throw new BuildException("Invalid HTTP protocol: "
                                          + requestMethod, pe);
+            } catch (SocketTimeoutException ste) {
+                return false;
             } catch (IOException e) {
                 return false;
             }