JQuery error option in $.ajax utility

Question

The documentation indicates that the error: option function will make available: XHR instance, a status message string (in this case always error) and an optional exception

Answer 1

Looking at the jQuery source code, there are four returned statuses, in additon to success:

• timeout - when your specified timeout is exceeded
• error - http error, like 404
• notmodified - when requested resource was not modified since last request
• parsererror - when an xml/json response is bad