diff --git a/sapi/apache/mod_php.c b/sapi/apache/mod_php.c
index 8f4d93d..8cfd3eb 100644
--- a/sapi/apache/mod_php.c
+++ b/sapi/apache/mod_php.c
@@ -350,6 +350,10 @@ static int php_apache_sapi_activate(TSRMLS_D)
 	 * send headers.
 	 */
 	SG(request_info).headers_only = r->header_only;
+
+    /* Init timeout */
+	hard_timeout("send", r);
+
 	return SUCCESS;
 }
 /* }}} */
@@ -647,9 +651,6 @@ static int send_php(request_rec *r, int display_source_mode, char *filename)
 		   scripts may change this later in the request. */
 		r->content_type = php_apache_get_default_mimetype(r TSRMLS_CC);
 
-		/* Init timeout */
-		hard_timeout("send", r);
-
 		SG(server_context) = r;
 		
 		php_save_umask();