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Your question doesn't make a lot of sense.

My apologies for not responding to you.

You are absolutely correct that I should simply be putting what I want to happen in either the success of the $.ajax() call or with the .done() at the end of said ajax call.

That said, unfortunately life hands us strange cards sometimes. The reason I'm using the $.when() with the $.ajax is because my code is being inserted into the page, yet needs to know when previous ajax calls I have no control over are done.

Hence me using the described method. At this point I've coded my way around  some of the issues I was running into.
As for passing a $.ajax() call inside of the $.when() as I understand it, it doesn't make an ajax call. It simple gets the deferred promise object of the ajax call with the defined URL I've passed in.

Back to my original question, I wonder if jQuery is capable of knowing which ajax call you are looking for by the root url/path without all the params on it. My guess is no.

Anyways, thanks for taking the time to answer.

--P

As for passing a $.ajax() call inside of the $.when() as I understand it, it doesn't make an ajax call. It simple gets the deferred promise object of the ajax call with the defined URL I've passed in.

That simply isn't the case. the ajax call is executed, and the generated promise object is then returned to $.when.

You could use a global ajax event(such as ajaxComplete) and then inspect the jqXHR to get the url that was requested, however this will only catch jQuery ajax requests, not ajax requests sent through non-jquery methods.


-- Kevin