diff --git a/software/caddy-frontend/test/test.py b/software/caddy-frontend/test/test.py
index 86b2c42ce1d36622df7abe6be8aaf06837a7fdc3..ce2031d78b49473ba5a98e5c73378ef902d08c5e 100644
--- a/software/caddy-frontend/test/test.py
+++ b/software/caddy-frontend/test/test.py
@@ -468,6 +468,8 @@ class TestMasterRequestDomain(HttpFrontendTestCase, TestDataMixin):
 
 class TestHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
   def do_GET(self):
+    timeout = int(self.headers.dict.get('Timeout', '0'))
+    time.sleep(timeout)
     self.send_response(200)
     self.send_header("Content-type", "application/json")
     self.send_header('Set-Cookie', 'secured=value;secure')
@@ -1169,7 +1171,9 @@ http://apachecustomhttpsaccepted.example.com:%%(http_port)s {
 
     result = self.fakeHTTPSResult(
       parameter_dict['domain'], parameter_dict['public-ipv4'],
-      'test-path/deep/.././deeper')
+      'test-path/deep/.././deeper',
+      headers={'Timeout': '10'}  # more than default proxy-try-duration == 5
+    )
 
     self.assertEqual(
       self.certificate_pem,
@@ -1183,6 +1187,8 @@ http://apachecustomhttpsaccepted.example.com:%%(http_port)s {
       raise ValueError('JSON decode problem in:\n%s' % (result.text,))
     self.assertFalse('remote_user' in j['Incoming Headers'].keys())
 
+    self.assertEqual(j['Incoming Headers']['timeout'], '10')
+
     self.assertFalse('Content-Encoding' in result.headers)
 
     self.assertEqual(
@@ -1208,6 +1214,14 @@ http://apachecustomhttpsaccepted.example.com:%%(http_port)s {
       result_http.headers['Set-Cookie']
     )
 
+    # check that try_duration == 5 in the test_url slave
+    slave_configuration_file = glob.glob(os.path.join(
+      self.instance_path, '*', 'etc', '*slave-conf.d', '_url.conf'))[0]
+    with open(slave_configuration_file) as fh:
+      content = fh.read()
+      self.assertTrue('try_duration 5s' in content)
+      self.assertTrue('try_interval 250ms' in content)
+
   @skip('Feature postponed')
   def test_url_ipv6_access(self):
     parameter_dict = self.parseSlaveParameterDict('url')