Bug 206524

When creating an audio element with an mp3 or aac stream, the network request intermittently keeps loading after unloading it.

I have made a reproducible example here: https://7c5c8.csb.app

Example source code can be viewed here: https://codesandbox.io/s/zealous-blackburn-7c5c8

A movie demonstrating the example in combination with the network tab here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/gzro7iimjxafsbb/audio-unload-bug.mov?dl=0

Click the button to create an audio element with a streaming url as its src. The second click on the button unloads the audio element, but in the network tab you will see that the request keeps running regardless.

I have tested this on both desktop and mobile versions of safari. On desktop I have also checked that it occurs in the Safari Technology Preview.