diff --git a/packages/playwright-core/src/client/harRouter.ts b/packages/playwright-core/src/client/harRouter.ts
index 5604ddc6eb..5fe32a39be 100644
--- a/packages/playwright-core/src/client/harRouter.ts
+++ b/packages/playwright-core/src/client/harRouter.ts
@@ -62,6 +62,13 @@ export class HarRouter {
     }
 
     if (response.action === 'fulfill') {
+      // If the response status is -1, the request was canceled or stalled, so we just stall it here.
+      // See https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/29311.
+      // TODO: it'd be better to abort such requests, but then we likely need to respect the timing,
+      // because the request might have been stalled for a long time until the very end of the
+      // test when HAR was recorded but we'd abort it immediately.
+      if (response.status === -1)
+        return;
       await route.fulfill({
         status: response.status,
         headers: Object.fromEntries(response.headers!.map(h => [h.name, h.value])),
diff --git a/tests/library/browsercontext-har.spec.ts b/tests/library/browsercontext-har.spec.ts
index 6afd8c54ea..6c31346e07 100644
--- a/tests/library/browsercontext-har.spec.ts
+++ b/tests/library/browsercontext-har.spec.ts
@@ -486,3 +486,35 @@ it('context.unrouteAll should stop context.routeFromHAR', async ({ contextFactor
   const response = await page1.goto(server.EMPTY_PAGE);
   expect(response.ok()).toBeTruthy();
 });
+
+it('should ignore aborted requests', async ({ contextFactory, server }) => {
+  it.info().annotations.push({ type: 'issue', description: 'https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/issues/29311' });
+  const path = it.info().outputPath('test.har');
+  {
+    server.setRoute('/x', (req, res) => { req.destroy(); });
+    const context1 = await contextFactory();
+    await context1.routeFromHAR(path, { update: true });
+    const page1 = await context1.newPage();
+    await page1.goto(server.EMPTY_PAGE);
+    const reqPromise = server.waitForRequest('/x');
+    const evalPromise = page1.evaluate(url => fetch(url).catch(e => 'cancelled'), server.PREFIX + '/x');
+    await reqPromise;
+    const req = await evalPromise;
+    expect(req).toBe('cancelled');
+    await context1.close();
+  }
+  server.reset();
+  {
+    server.setRoute('/x', (req, res) => {
+      res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': 'text/plain' });
+      res.end('test');
+    });
+    const context2 = await contextFactory();
+    await context2.routeFromHAR(path);
+    const page2 = await context2.newPage();
+    await page2.goto(server.EMPTY_PAGE);
+    const evalPromise = page2.evaluate(url => fetch(url).catch(e => 'cancelled'), server.PREFIX + '/x');
+    const result = await Promise.race([evalPromise, page2.waitForTimeout(1000).then(() => 'timeout')]);
+    expect(result).toBe('timeout');
+  }
+});
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