Stop loading images from Web Service

Question

Using the following code I put multiple request for images to the web service:
                    var pageArray:ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection;
                    pageArray = event.result as ArrayCollection;
                    for (var ii:int = 0; ii < pageArray.length; ii++)
                        var filePage:FilePage = (filePages.placeImagesHere.addElement(new FilePage) as FilePage);
                        filePage.load('image_'+pageArray[ii].imageID.toString());
The loading takes place as multiple images are returned fom the server. All is well until the user wants to abort the image loading to view something else. removeAllElements() is called when a Close button is pressed but the images are still returned in the background.
                     placeImagesHere.removeAllElements();
If many images are to be returned the user has to wait for this to finish before the next lot of images can be viewed. I would have expected the function removeAllElements() would stop the process but it doesn't.
Is there any was to 'flush' or stop all previous image requests?
Thanks,
Stewart.

Answer 1

Thanks for the reply but the for loop finishes and the asynchronous event of receiving the images still occurs.
For example, the for loop loads 500 images. The web service takes 2 or 3 mintues to process all the images and returns them into each requesting Image component. The Close button calls the removeAllElements from the Images' parent so they no longer appear on the screen. However, the browser is still receiving the images. You can see the transfering data message flick on and off in the status line al the bottom of the browser.
The web service hasn't received all the requests at this point so they are still in transit from the browser to the web service.
Using a timer to load the images just means the images requests take longer to send to the web service.
What I need to do is cancel all image load requests when the user presses the Close button.
Hope this make sense.
Stewart.