SOAP timeout not working

[Velaki]

I have a situation where my SOAP code works fine, up until the point I need to connect to a service that is unavailable. When I do, the process simply hangs.

The on_fault executes on call() after a few minutes, but never appears to return; instead, the process simply dies. No traps, eval doesn't protect it, no messages; just dies.

# This should work, not sure.
use SOAP::Lite
    on_fault => sub {
                    my $msg = "ERROR: ";
                    my ($soap, $result) = @_;
                    $msg .= ref $result
                          ? $result->faultstring
                          : $soap->transport->status;
                    print STDERR "\tFault -> $msg\n";
                };

# This works!
my $c = eval { SOAP::Lite->uri($uri)
                  ->on_action(sub { join '', @_ })
                  ->proxy($proxy);
};

# This is suspect.
$c->transport->timeout(5);

# This hangs for minutes.
my $r = eval { $c->call(
    SOAP::Data->name('FooService'),
    SOAP::Data->name('FooVar')->value($foo)->type('int'));
};

And the timeout doesn't seem to work. Even when set to 2 seconds, it still hangs for minutes.

Thoughts?