How to cancel an $http request in AngularJS?

Question

Given a Ajax request in AngularJS

$http.get(\"/backend/\").success(callback);

what is the most effective way to cancel that request if anot

Answer 1

Cancelation of requests issued with $http is not supported with the current version of AngularJS. There is a pull request opened to add this capability but this PR wasn't reviewed yet so it is not clear if its going to make it into AngularJS core.