XMLHttpRequest.abort()

The XMLHttpRequest.abort() method aborts the request if it has already been sent. When a request is aborted, its readyState is changed to XMLHttpRequest.UNSENT (0) and the request's status code is set to 0.

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This example begins loading content from the MDN home page, then due to some condition, aborts the transfer by calling abort().

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest(),
    method = "GET",
    url = "https://developer.mozilla.org/";
xhr.open(method, url, true);

xhr.send();

if (OH_NOES_WE_NEED_TO_CANCEL_RIGHT_NOW_OR_ELSE) {
  xhr.abort();
}

• Using XMLHttpRequest