request-cancelling

Are PHP processes called via AJAX cancelled on "ESC"?

If I do an AJAX call, would the AJAX call be canceled if the user pressed "ESC" or leaved that page? If the AJAX call gets canceled, would my PHP script continue to run until it finished what it was doing (provided time limit doesn't get reached or any other server configuration stops.), or would that process get killed at the same time...

How to cancel ajax request that has run (on server side)

I was wondering if there's a simple way to cancel an AJAX request? Beyond just calling an 'abort' on the XMLHTTPRequest on the client side, is there a way to easily stop the server process? The server is using Apache. Thanks ...

how to cancel WCF service call?

Hi I have a WCF function that is executing long time, so I call the function in UI with backgraundworker... I want to give a feature to cancel the execution, so I abort IComunicationObject, the problem is that Service execution is not stoping, Is there any way to stop Service execution in this case? ...

background worker class cancellation, sets cancellation pending flag but doesn't quit

I call obackgroundworker.CancelAsync(); on a background worker currently doing some work in another thread and then using while (obackgroundworker.IsBusy == true) to wait for it to finish before quitting the application (in case the user changes their mind while the thread is away processing and I want to close down cleanly) ...

Does SOAP support canceling a call?

When using the SOAP protocol, is it possible to cancel a pending remote function call using SOAP? I see three different situations: A) Making a request to a service that takes a long time to complete. For example, when copying directory containing a lot of files, can the file copy loop be canceled? B) Making a request that returns a l...

Symfony : ajax call cause server to queue next queries

Hello, I've a problem with my application when an ajax call on the server takes too much time : it queue all the others queries from the user until it's done server side (I realized that canceling the call client side has no effect and the user still have to wait). Here is my test case : <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.4....

How to cancel a long running database insert/update operation from ASP.NET UI when the the operation is being oerformed by a Windows service

I see a question about this here. However, in my case, It is the windows service which in running the long running insert/update on a table and I need to cancel the operation from my ASP.NET application. In the above link Burnsys suggests that one should kill the Sql server session. Is that really only way and a goood practice to do this...

Canceling BackgroundWorker within the Thread

I have a longer running multi-step process using BackgroundWorker and C#. I need to be sure that each step is completed successfully before moving on to the next step. I have seen many references to letting the BackgroundWorker catch errors and canceling from clicking on a Cancel button, but I want to check for an error myself and then g...

What is actually happening to this cancelled HTTP request?

When a user takes a particular action on a page, an Ajax call is made to save their data. Unfortunately, this call is synchronous as they need to wait to see if the data is valid before being allowed to continue. Obviously, this eliminates a lot of the benefit of using Asynchronous JavaScript And XML, but that's a subject for another pos...

Can a http server detect that a client has cancelled their request?

My web app must process and serve a lot of data to display certain pages. Sometimes, the user closes or refreshes a page while the server is still busy processing it. This means the server will continue to process data for several minutes only to send it to a client who is no longer listening. Is it possible to detect that the connect...

How to cancel a running AXIS 1.4 SOAP request?

Is it possible to cancel a SOAP request (Axis 1.4, Java 1.6) that's currently executing? I'm using the interfaces generated with WSDL2Java, so the call is something like myProvider.submitMyRequest(request). This is synchronous and doesn't return until a response is received. I want to be able to interrupt the call based on an external c...

cancelPreviousPerformRequestWithTarget is not canceling my previously delayed thread started with performSelector

Hello, I've launched a delayed thread using performSelector but the user still has the ability to hit the back button on the current view causing dealloc to be called. When this happens my thread still seems to be called which causes my app to crash because the properties that thread is trying to write to have been released. To solve ...

How to cancel a deeply nested process

I have a class that is a "manager" sort of class. One of it's functions is to signal that the long running process of the class should shut down. It does this by setting a boolean called "IsStopping" in class. public class Foo { bool isStoping void DoWork() { while (!isStopping) { // do work... ...

jQuery - Cancel form submit (using "return false"?)?

Hey there. I'm running into a bit of trouble while trying to cancel the submit of a form. I've been following this tutorial (even though i'm not making a login script), and it seems to be working for him. Here's my form: <form action="index.php" method="post" name="pForm"> <textarea name="comment" onclick="if(this.value ==...

How can you tell if the user hit cancel during a download from a Java servlet?

How can you tell if the user hit cancel during a download from a Java servlet? What seem to happen for me with IE, the output stream println() blocks. The used hit cancel, but is there a way to time this out or anything like that? ...

iPhone - cancelPerformSelectorWithTarget not working

If I do this in a subclass of UIView: [self performSelector:@selector(doSomething) withObject:nil afterDelay:5]; Then cancel it like this (I've tried both versions): [[NSRunLoop currentRunLoop] cancelPerformSelectorsWithTarget:self]; //[[NSRunLoop mainRunLoop] cancelPerformSelectorsWithTarget:self]; The "doSomething" method still...