Feign timeout works but response is returned to the server after timeout + 60''

Hello,

I am using Ribbon + Feign in a project

@FeignClient(name = "test-proxy")
@RibbonClient(name = "test-proxy")
public interface TestProxy ...

I have set the Feign timeout to 10’’ using the following bit of code:

@Bean
public Request.Options options() {
	return new Request.Options(10000, 10000);
}

The timeout works, I get a

feign.RetryableException: Read timed out executing POST...

but the response is not returned until 60’’ afterwards (after about 70’’ in total). The same thing happens if I set the timeout to 5’‘, the response is returned after about 65’'.

It seems there is some thread that is running and stops the response from returning. I read that this might be due to Hystrix thread that waits to time out, but we do not use Hystrix (at least not explicitly).

I tried nevertheless to disable the Hystrix functionality using properties in the application.properties, but to no avail.

Any thoughts on this? Is this a bug or something I am missing?

These are the dependencies I use:

dependencies {
	compile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web')
	compile group: 'org.springframework.cloud', name: 'spring-cloud-starter-openfeign', version: '1.4.4.RELEASE'
	compile group: 'org.springframework.cloud', name: 'spring-cloud-starter-netflix-ribbon', version: '1.4.5.RELEASE'
	compile group: 'org.springframework.cloud', name: 'spring-cloud-starter-netflix-eureka-client', version: '1.4.4.RELEASE'
	compile group: 'org.springframework.cloud', name: 'spring-cloud-dependencies', version: 'Edgware.RELEASE', ext: 'pom'
	runtime('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-devtools')
}

Thank you