diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
index 9a1896471..459771519 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
@@ -1649,6 +1649,12 @@ Pass a long to tell libcurl how to act on transfer decoding. If set to zero,
 transfer decoding will be disabled, if set to 1 it is enabled
 (default). libcurl does chunked transfer decoding by default unless this
 option is set to zero. (added in 7.16.2)
+.IP CURLOPT_EXPECT_100_TIMEOUT_MS
+Pass a long to tell libcurl the number of milliseconds to wait for a server
+response with the HTTP status 100 (Continue), 417 (Expectation Failed) or
+similar after sending a HTTP request containing an Expect: 100-continue
+header. If this times out before a response is received, the request body is
+sent anyway. By default, libcurl waits 1000 milliseconds. (Added in 7.36.0)
 .SH SMTP OPTIONS
 .IP CURLOPT_MAIL_FROM
 Pass a pointer to a zero terminated string as parameter. This should be used
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/symbols-in-versions b/docs/libcurl/symbols-in-versions
index a3bc7a507..2e9fc4da0 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/symbols-in-versions
+++ b/docs/libcurl/symbols-in-versions
@@ -341,6 +341,7 @@ CURLOPT_DNS_USE_GLOBAL_CACHE    7.9.3         7.11.1
 CURLOPT_EGDSOCKET               7.7
 CURLOPT_ENCODING                7.10
 CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER             7.1
+CURLOPT_EXPECT_100_TIMEOUT_MS   7.36.0
 CURLOPT_FAILONERROR             7.1
 CURLOPT_FILE                    7.1           7.9.7
 CURLOPT_FILETIME                7.5
diff --git a/include/curl/curl.h b/include/curl/curl.h
index b2c9ee091..8038d8d25 100644
--- a/include/curl/curl.h
+++ b/include/curl/curl.h
@@ -1577,6 +1577,10 @@ typedef enum {
   /* Enable/disable TLS ALPN extension (http2 over ssl might fail without) */
   CINIT(SSL_ENABLE_ALPN, LONG, 226),
 
+  /* Time to wait for a response to a HTTP request containing an
+   * Expect: 100-continue header before sending the data anyway. */
+  CINIT(EXPECT_100_TIMEOUT_MS, LONG, 227),
+
   CURLOPT_LASTENTRY /* the last unused */
 } CURLoption;
 
diff --git a/lib/transfer.c b/lib/transfer.c
index f996b0ee5..83727db68 100644
--- a/lib/transfer.c
+++ b/lib/transfer.c
@@ -87,8 +87,6 @@
 /* The last #include file should be: */
 #include "memdebug.h"
 
-#define CURL_TIMEOUT_EXPECT_100 1000 /* counting ms here */
-
 /*
  * This function will call the read callback to fill our buffer with data
  * to upload.
@@ -839,7 +837,7 @@ static CURLcode readwrite_upload(struct SessionHandle *data,
           *didwhat &= ~KEEP_SEND;  /* we didn't write anything actually */
 
           /* set a timeout for the multi interface */
-          Curl_expire(data, CURL_TIMEOUT_EXPECT_100);
+          Curl_expire(data, data->set.expect_100_timeout);
           break;
         }
 
@@ -1075,7 +1073,7 @@ CURLcode Curl_readwrite(struct connectdata *conn,
       */
 
       long ms = Curl_tvdiff(k->now, k->start100);
-      if(ms >= CURL_TIMEOUT_EXPECT_100) {
+      if(ms >= data->set.expect_100_timeout) {
         /* we've waited long enough, continue anyway */
         k->exp100 = EXP100_SEND_DATA;
         k->keepon |= KEEP_SEND;
@@ -1969,7 +1967,7 @@ Curl_setup_transfer(
 
         /* Set a timeout for the multi interface. Add the inaccuracy margin so
            that we don't fire slightly too early and get denied to run. */
-        Curl_expire(data, CURL_TIMEOUT_EXPECT_100);
+        Curl_expire(data, data->set.expect_100_timeout);
       }
       else {
         if(data->state.expect100header)
diff --git a/lib/url.c b/lib/url.c
index 3f2112d8a..5020a2bdf 100644
--- a/lib/url.c
+++ b/lib/url.c
@@ -565,6 +565,8 @@ CURLcode Curl_init_userdefined(struct UserDefined *set)
 
   set->ssl_enable_npn = TRUE;
   set->ssl_enable_alpn = TRUE;
+
+  set->expect_100_timeout = 1000L; /* Wait for a second by default. */
   return res;
 }
 
@@ -1256,6 +1258,14 @@ CURLcode Curl_setopt(struct SessionHandle *data, CURLoption option,
   }
   break;
 
+  case CURLOPT_EXPECT_100_TIMEOUT_MS:
+    /*
+     * Time to wait for a response to a HTTP request containing an
+     * Expect: 100-continue header before sending the data anyway.
+     */
+    data->set.expect_100_timeout = va_arg(param, long);
+    break;
+
 #endif   /* CURL_DISABLE_HTTP */
 
   case CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST:
diff --git a/lib/urldata.h b/lib/urldata.h
index 188e766ea..1ab7b94e9 100644
--- a/lib/urldata.h
+++ b/lib/urldata.h
@@ -1596,6 +1596,8 @@ struct UserDefined {
 
   bool ssl_enable_npn;  /* TLS NPN extension? */
   bool ssl_enable_alpn; /* TLS ALPN extension? */
+
+  long expect_100_timeout; /* in milliseconds */
 };
 
 struct Names {