diff --git a/components/ILIAS/soap/lib/nusoap.php b/components/ILIAS/soap/lib/nusoap.php
index 3759b3f724ec..90543de5a412 100755
--- a/components/ILIAS/soap/lib/nusoap.php
+++ b/components/ILIAS/soap/lib/nusoap.php
@@ -2372,7 +2372,7 @@ public function connect($connection_timeout = 0, $response_timeout = 30)
 
             // set response timeout
             $this->debug('set response timeout to ' . $response_timeout);
-            socket_set_timeout($this->fp, $response_timeout);
+            stream_set_timeout($this->fp, $response_timeout);
 
             $this->debug('socket connected');
             return true;