How to cancel current request in interceptor - Angular 4

I think all you have to do to cut the interceptor chain is to simply return an empty Observable like so:

import { EMPTY } from 'rxjs';

intercept(request: HttpRequest<any>, next: HttpHandler): Observable<HttpEvent<any>> {
  if (stopThisRequest) {
    return EMPTY;
  }

  return next.handle(request);
}

Inspired by @RVP answer I have found out that it's possible to cut the chain with an error in the same simple way using Observable.throw()

//...
intercept(req: HttpRequest<any>, next: HttpHandler): Observable<HttpEvent<any>> {
    if (stopThisRequestWithError) {
        return Observable.throw('Error message');
    } else {
        return next.handle(req);
    }
}

This avoids fulfilling response promises with undefined values.