This took just over 3 minutes (default timeout). Why didn't the timeout of 10 seconds kick in?

Note I cannot reproduce as the internal server error is fixed, but I want to avoid the lengthy timeout in future

Using perl 5.8.0, here is code snippet:

  my $method = 'POST';
  my $url = "https://etc"; # note: actual url not shown here
  my $query_string = "";   # note: actual query string not shown here

  my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
  $ua->timeout(10);
  $ua->agent('Mozilla/4.6');
  $ua->cookie_jar(HTTP::Cookies->new);
  $request = new HTTP::Request($method,$url);
  $request->content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
  $request->content($query_string);

  $response_content =  $ua->request($request)->content;
  LWP::Debug::debug("Response:\n$response_content\n");

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Debug messages are as follows:

LWP::UserAgent::new: ()
LWP::UserAgent::proxy:  
LWP::UserAgent::request: ()
LWP::UserAgent::send_request: POST <URL here>
LWP::UserAgent::_need_proxy: Not proxied
LWP::Protocol::http::request: ()
LWP::UserAgent::request: Simple response: Internal Server Error
Response:
500 Connect failed: connect: Connection timed out; Connection timed ou
+t

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In reply to LWP::UserAgent request ignores timeout when internal server error encountered by Anonymous Monk

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