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My website makes a lot of requests. I often need to cancel all current requests, so that the browser is not blocking relevant new requests.

I have 3 kinds of requests:

  • Ajax
  • inserted script-tags (which do JSONP-Communication)
  • inserted image-tags (which cause the browser to request data from various servers)

For Ajax its no problem as the XMLHttpRequest object supports canceling. What I need is a way to make any browser stop loading resources, from DOM-Objects.

Looks like simply removing an object (eg. an image-tag) from the DOM only helps avoiding an request, if the request is not already running.

UPDATE: a way to cancel all requests, which are irrelevant, instead of really any request would be perfect.

Jeremy
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Julius Eckert
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window.stop() should cancel any pending image or script requests.

toohool
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I think document.close() stops all requests, but I'm not so sure about it.

Armin Ronacher
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