[SOLVED] Cancel file upload

[jaymc]

If I am uploading a file via a form, how can I cancel it

 

lets just say its a 100MB file and after 1 minute I decide I want to cancel it

 

Note: Reloading the page is out the question. I just need the actually connection killed, maybe javascript?

[roopurt18]

Click the stop button on your browser?

[jaymc]

It has to be in a system, not for personal gain

 

I need it to be a button within the webpage, it submits to an iframe by the way

[phpQuestioner]

you could just actually reload the page with javascript and that should destory the upload process.

 

<script language="javascript">

function stopUpLoad()
{
document.location.href="thispagesaddresshere.html";
}

</script>

<a href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="stopUpLoad()">Cancel Upload</a>

[jaymc]

No

Note: Reloading the page is out the question. I just need the actually connection killed, maybe javascript?

 

[phpQuestioner]

well here is your window DOM event options - check them out and go from there - that's all I know to tell you; except limit your file size uploads and you will not have this problem.

 

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/DOM:window

[fenway]

define cancel.

[jaymc]

In my livechat system you can send files

 

after browsing and clicking submit, it submits to an iframe within the page, therefor, no refresh

 

All working fine, but, in the event someone wants to stop a file upload, I want a button that will cancel it

 

 

[fenway]

Well, you can't stop the upload server-side, since it's asynchronous... but why not just reset the src of hte iframe?

[jaymc]

Great!