Hello, I've noticed this weird behaviour of jQuery in Safari and Chrome (didn't test on Firefox as I'm using some webkit CSS extensions). After setting up the call like this:

2. $.ajax( {
3. 'url' : url,
4. 'dataType' : 'json',
5. data : reqdata,
6. cache: false,
7. method: 'get',
8. timeout: 20000, //10 secs of timeout 
9. success : function(data, textStatus, XMLHttpRequest) {
10. console.log("success");
11. if ((data === null) || (data.length == 0)) {
12. ts.doAction( {
13. 'actionName' : 'timeout',
14. 'request' : {
15. 'reqdata' : reqdata,
16. 'actionName' : actionName,
17. 'url' : url
18. },
19. 'controller' : ts
20. });
21. }
22. 
    
23. ts.doAction( {
24. 'actionName' : actionName,
25. 'data' : data
26. });
27. },
28. error : function(XMLHttpRequest, textStatus, errorThrown) {
29. console.log("error: " + textStatus);
30. 
    
31. if (textStatus == "timeout") {
32. ts.doAction( {
33. 'actionName' : 'networkFailureError',
34. 'request' : {
35. 'reqdata' : reqdata,
36. 'actionName' : actionName,
37. 'url' : url
38. },
39. 'controller' : ts
40. });
41. } else {
42. ts.doAction( {
43. 'actionName' : 'serverError',
44. 'request' : {
45. 'reqdata' : reqdata,
46. 'actionName' : actionName,
47. 'url' : url
48. },
49. 'controller' : ts
50. });
51. }
52. }
53. });

If a timeout occurs (I switch the local webserver off), the 'success' method will be called! More than this in the textStatus parameter there is a string with "success" !!! The error handler doesn't even get called.... (As you may notice the only way I had to tell the problem, was to check the data param if it is null or 0 length... Why this behaviour? How can I avoid this?