How to cancel/abort jQuery AJAX request?

Question

I\'ve an AJAX request which will be made every 5 seconds. But the problem is before the AJAX request if the previous request is not completed I\'ve to abort that request and

Answer 1

I know this might be a little late but i experience similar issues where calling the abort method didnt really aborted the request. instead the browser was still waiting for a response that it never uses. this code resolved that issue.

 try {
        xhr.onreadystatechange = null;
        xhr.abort();
} catch (e) {}