NSConnection ignores setRequestTimeout: on first request

I'm using NSConnections (based on NSSocketPorts) for distributed object communications. We just Bonjour to publish NSConnection server availability on the network. However, if you just disconnect the ethernet from the server machine the Bonjour publish 'lingers' for a bit on the client mac

NSURLConnection inserting Accept-Language and Accept headers

Is there anyway to completely remove these headers from being inserted by NSURLConnection? They are not present in my NSMutableURLRequest, but show up in the stream sent out by the NSURLConnection. I see no way to control this. Thanks, Mike ___