[http] What does "pending" mean for request in Chrome Developer Window?

What does "Pending" mean under the status column in the "Network" tab of Google Chrome Developer window?

This happens when my page script issues a GET request whose response contains content-headers for downloading a CSV file:

Content-type: text/csv;
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=myfile.csv

This works fine in FF and IE7, downloading a CSV file as expected and opening a file picker to save the file, but Chrome does nothing. I confirmed that the server responds to the request, so it appears that Chrome will not process the response.

Curiously, all works as expected if I type the URL into Chromes address bar and hit .

FYI: Chrome 10.0.648.204 on Win-XP

In my case, I found (after much hair-pulling) that the "pending" status was caused by the AdBlock extension. The image that I couldn't get to load had the word "ad" in the URL, so AdBlock kept it from loading.

Disabling AdBlock fixes this issue.

Renaming the file so that it doesn't contain "ad" in the URL also fixes it, and is obviously a better solution. Unless it's an advertisement, in which case you should leave it like that. :)

I had some problems with pending request for mp3 files. I had a list of mp3 files and one player to play them. If I picked a file that had already been downloaded, Chrome would block the request and show "pending request" in the network tab of the developer tools.

All versions of Chrome seem to be affected.

Here is a solution I found:

player[0].setAttribute('src','video.webm?dummy=' + Date.now());

You just add a dummy query string to the end of each url. This forces Chrome to download the file again.

Another example with popcorn player (using jquery) :

url = $(this).find('.url_song').attr('url');
pop = Popcorn.smart( "#player_",  url + '?i=' + Date.now());

This works for me. In fact, the resource is not stored in the cache system. This should also work in the same way for .csv files.

I came across this issue when I was debugging a local web application. The issue turned out to be AVG Antivirus and Firewall restrictions. I had to allow an exception through the firewall to get rid of the "Pending" status.

The fix, for me, was to add the following to the top of the php file which was being requested.

header("Cache-Control: no-cache,no-store");

I encountered the same problem when I request certain images from page. I use JavaScript to set the src attribute of an img object and if the network is poor pending will be displayed in the network panel of chrome developer window. I think it's due to the poor network.

The Network pending state on time, means your request is in progressing state. As soon as it responds the time will be updated with total elapsed time.

This picture shows the network call is in processing state(Pending)

This picture shows the time taken in processing by network call.

I had the same issue on OSX Mavericks, it turned out that Sophos anti-virus was blocking certain requests, once I uninstalled it the issue went away.

If you think that it might be caused by an extension one easy way to try and test this is to open chrome with the '--disable-extensions flag to see if it fixes the problem. If that doesn't fix it consider looking beyond the browser to see if any other application might be causing the problem, specifically security apps which can affect requests.

I had a similar issue with application/json ajax calls. In ff/IE they were fine. In chrome in the Developer Network window Status was always (pending) because a different status code was being returned.

In my case I changed my Json response to send a HttpStatusCode of 200 then Chrome was fine and the Status Text changed to 200 OK.

For example using ASP.NET Web Api

 return new HttpResponseMessage(HttpStatusCode.OK ) {
            Content = request.Content
        };

I also get this when using the HTTPS everywhere plugin. This plugin has a list of sites that also have https instead of http. So I assume before the actual request is made it is already being cancelled somehow.

So for example when I go to http://stackexchange.com, in Developer I first see a request with status (terminated). This request has some headers, but only the GET, User-Agent, and Accept. No response as well.

Then there is request to https://stackexchange.com with full headers etc.

So I assume it is used for requests that aren't sent.

In my case, there's an update for Chrome that makes it won't load before you restart the browser. Cheers

Same problem with Chrome : I had in my html page the following code :

<body>
  ...
  <script src="http://myserver/lib/load.js"></script>
  ...
</body>

But the load.js was always in status pending when looking in the Network pannel.

I found a workaround using asynchronous load of load.js:

<body>
  ...
  <script>
    setTimeout(function(){
      var head, script;
      head = document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0];
      script = document.createElement("script");
      script.src = "http://myserver/lib/load.js";
      head.appendChild(script);
    }, 1);
  </script>
  ...
</body>

Now its working fine.