diff --git a/src/crawlee/http_clients/_impit.py b/src/crawlee/http_clients/_impit.py
index cf22f7ad78..0eec36a956 100644
--- a/src/crawlee/http_clients/_impit.py
+++ b/src/crawlee/http_clients/_impit.py
@@ -193,6 +193,7 @@ async def stream(
             url=url,
             content=payload,
             headers=dict(headers) if headers else None,
+            timeout=timeout.total_seconds() if timeout else None,
             stream=True,
         )
         try: