How to you abort/cancel a request using the prototype js library?

Question

Using this code:

var pendingRequest =  new Ajax.Request(myUrl, {
               method: \'post\',
               postBody: soapMsg,
               contentTyp         


        

Answer 1

I reccomend this article: http://blog.pothoven.net/2007/12/aborting-ajax-requests-for-prototypejs.html works for me.

Answer 2

You can use XHR's abort.

The XHR-object is stored in pendingRequest.transport, so using

pendingRequest.transport.abort()

would cancel the request.