diff --git a/contrib/pom.xml b/contrib/pom.xml
index b270574e..13c6d3fb 100644
--- a/contrib/pom.xml
+++ b/contrib/pom.xml
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>com.rabbitmq</groupId>
 			<artifactId>amqp-client</artifactId>
-			<version>3.2.1</version>
+			<version>4.8.0</version>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>com.itextpdf</groupId>
diff --git a/contrib/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/frontier/AMQPUrlReceiver.java b/contrib/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/frontier/AMQPUrlReceiver.java
index 1d2cf5b6..78b50b88 100644
--- a/contrib/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/frontier/AMQPUrlReceiver.java
+++ b/contrib/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/frontier/AMQPUrlReceiver.java
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.HashSet;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Set;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException;
 import java.util.concurrent.locks.Lock;
 import java.util.concurrent.locks.ReentrantLock;
 import java.util.logging.Level;
@@ -180,7 +181,7 @@ public class AMQPUrlReceiver
                             // start up again
                             try {
                                 startConsumer();
-                            } catch (IOException e) {
+                            } catch (IOException | TimeoutException e) {
                                 logger.log(Level.SEVERE, "problem starting AMQP consumer (will try again after 10 seconds)", e);
                             }
                         }
@@ -193,7 +194,7 @@ public class AMQPUrlReceiver
                                     consumerTag = null;
                                     logger.info("Cancelled URLConsumer.");
                                 }
-                            } catch (IOException e) {
+                            } catch (IOException | TimeoutException e) {
                                 logger.log(Level.SEVERE, "problem cancelling AMQP consumer (will try again after 10 seconds)", e);
                             }
                         }
@@ -209,7 +210,7 @@ public class AMQPUrlReceiver
             }
         }
 
-        public void startConsumer() throws IOException {
+        public void startConsumer() throws IOException, TimeoutException {
             Consumer consumer = new UrlConsumer(channel());
             channel().exchangeDeclare(getExchange(), "direct", true);
             channel().queueDeclare(getQueueName(), durable,
@@ -235,7 +236,7 @@ public class AMQPUrlReceiver
                     // try to synchronously start the consumer right now, so
                     // that the queue is bound before crawling starts
                     starterRestarter.startConsumer();
-                } catch (IOException e) {
+                } catch (IOException | TimeoutException e) {
                     logger.log(Level.SEVERE, "problem starting AMQP consumer (will try again soon)", e);
                 }
                 starterRestarter.start();
@@ -278,7 +279,7 @@ public class AMQPUrlReceiver
     transient protected Connection connection = null;
     transient protected Channel channel = null;
 
-    protected Connection connection() throws IOException {
+    protected Connection connection() throws IOException, TimeoutException {
         lock.lock();
         try {
             if (connection != null && !connection.isOpen()) {
@@ -302,7 +303,7 @@ public class AMQPUrlReceiver
         }
     }
 
-    protected Channel channel() throws IOException {
+    protected Channel channel() throws IOException, TimeoutException {
         lock.lock();
         try {
             if (channel != null && !channel.isOpen()) {