diff --git a/library/ssl_tls.c b/library/ssl_tls.c
index 6c0f3ea..6b0d11e 100644
--- a/library/ssl_tls.c
+++ b/library/ssl_tls.c
@@ -4942,7 +4942,7 @@
     ssl->f_send         = f_send;
     ssl->f_recv         = f_recv;
     ssl->f_recv_timeout = f_recv_timeout;
-    ssl->timeout        = timeout;
+    ssl->read_timeout   = timeout;
 }
 
 void ssl_set_session_cache( ssl_context *ssl,