What happens when a user presses stop in their web browser?

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Published on 2010-03-30T09:29:41Z Indexed on 2010/03/30 9:33 UTC
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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?

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