Elasticsearch not respecting timeout parameter

gistfile1.txt

Expensive child query
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curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/test/_search?pretty=true&timeout=2' -d '
{
  "query" : {   
    "has_child" : {
      "type" : "comment",
      "query" : {
        "term" : { "subject" : "*" }
      }
    }
  }
}
'

{
  "took" : 56525,
  "timed_out" : false,
  "_shards" : {
    "total" : 5,
    "successful" : 5,
    "failed" : 0
  },
  "hits" : {
    "total" : 0,
    "max_score" : null,
    "hits" : [ ]
  }
}

Simple query
------------

curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/test/_search?pretty=true&timeout=2' -d '
{
  "query" : {
    "query_string":
    {
        "query":"*"
    }
  }
}'

{
  "took" : 50,
  "timed_out" : true,
  "_shards" : {
    "total" : 5,
    "successful" : 5,
    "failed" : 0
  },
  "hits" : {
    "total" : 0,
    "max_score" : null,
    "hits" : [ ]
  }
}