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		afarah1 26 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You can't cancel a JavaScript promise (except some... You can also race it with another promise, which e.g. resolves on timeout.

Keyframe 26 days ago [–]

You can but it still won't get cancelled. I found out when I tried to implement a hard time limit to a call.

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