Question

Is there a way to abort all Ajax requests globally without a handle on the request object?

The reason I ask is that we have quite a complex application where we are running a number of different Ajax requests in the background by using setTimeOut(). If the user clicks a certain button we need to halt all ongoing requests.

Answer 1

You need to call abort() method:

var request = $.ajax({
    type: 'POST',
    url: 'someurl',
    success: function(result){..........}
});

After that you can abort the request:

request.abort();

This way you need to create a variable for your ajax request and then you can use the abort method on that to abort the request any time.

Also have a look at:

• Aborting Ajax