How to stop polling in SignalR?

Question

Is there any way to stop polling server in SignalR? I want to stop polling server if error occurs. Polling hubs is started with $.connection.hub.start(), so I assumed that it could be stopped with $.connection.hub.stop() or something like that. But it doesn't seem to work, polling continues even after calling stop(). Is there another way to stop pollling?

<script type="text/javascript">

 var chatHub = $.connection.chatHub;
 var connection = $.connection.hub;

chatHub.addMessage = function (message) {
      $('#messages').append('<li>' + message + '</li>');
    };

connection.error(function (error) {
 $('#messages').append('<li>' + "error connecting: closing connnection" + '</li>');
    connection.stop(); //This doesn't seem to work   
        });

connection.start();

</script>

Answer 1

If you're using hubs you can stop the hub's connection:

$.connection.hub.stop();