Question

I’m developing a web application that is highly dependent on pre-loading images before displaying them to the user. However, depending on the user’s actions, it would sometimes be important to terminate the loading of an image before it has a chance to finalize, so as not to waste bandwidth.
Is it possible to do this? If so, how exactly?

Answer 1

I found an acceptable (more or less) solution to my problem on Javascript: Cancel/Stop Image Requests and applied it like this:

var img = new Image();
img.src = "IMG_0111.JPG";
var timer = setTimeout(function(){
        window.stop();
        document.execCommand("Stop", false);                                            
    },50);

This achieves the result I was looking for, although I’m afraid it puts an end to all other HTTP requests as well.