If a page is called that requires a lot of processing and the user clicks stop before the end, does the browser simply stop the request at the client side?
Or is a ‘stop’ message sent to the server, i.e. is the processing cancelled?
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If a page is called that requires a lot of processing and the user clicks stop before the end, does the browser simply stop the request at the client side?
Or is a ‘stop’ message sent to the server, i.e. is the processing cancelled?
No message is sent to the server when that happens. When the user presses the stop button, the browser just halts the rendering of the page and ignore any further response= from the server.
If the request has already been sent to the server, the server will usually continue executing it. However, depending on the server’s implementation, may detect the dropped connection. Meaning you can not rely on the fact that it will continue in every case.