If for whatever reason you would like to change the behavior of the
HTTP client when making the web service request, you can do so by
creating your own instance of the Zend_Http_Client object (see
Zend_Http). This is useful for instance when it is
desirable to set the timeout for the connection to something other then default as
shown:
<?php
$client = new Zend_Http_Client();
$client->setConfig(array('timeout' => 5));
$ss = new Zend_Service_SlideShare('APIKEY',
'SHAREDSECRET',
'USERNAME',
'PASSWORD');
$ss->setHttpClient($client);
$ss_user = $ss->getSlideShowsByUser('username', $starting_offset, $limit);