diff --git a/testing/indexer-test-core/src/main/java/org/opengroup/osdu/util/HTTPClient.java b/testing/indexer-test-core/src/main/java/org/opengroup/osdu/util/HTTPClient.java
index 1ce98c78a3710d279c9500d01a80e2ccaa0075f2..865f645ab744aa9f9e5866eadbff2a65f747b175 100644
--- a/testing/indexer-test-core/src/main/java/org/opengroup/osdu/util/HTTPClient.java
+++ b/testing/indexer-test-core/src/main/java/org/opengroup/osdu/util/HTTPClient.java
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ public abstract class HTTPClient {
             headers.put(HEADER_CORRELATION_ID, correlationId);
             Client client = getClient();
             client.setReadTimeout(180000);
-            client.setConnectTimeout(10000);
+            client.setConnectTimeout(300000);
             log.info("URL: = " + url);
             WebResource webResource = client.resource(url);
             response = this.getClientResponse(httpMethod, payLoad, webResource, headers, token);
@@ -91,4 +91,4 @@ public abstract class HTTPClient {
         currentHeaders.put("data-partition-id", value);
         return currentHeaders;
     }
-}
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+}