jQuery AJAX error handling

Question

I\'ve searched the questions on here, but I don\'t have a good understanding of how to use the error handling in jQuery\'s AJAX (im a noob, so it just really doesn\'t make s

Answer 1

Even though it's not your problem, I'll post here since it's related.

With the recent JQuery v1.4 release, JSON responses are now validated. It broke my app because I returned:

 {success:true}

and now it's required to be

 {"success":true} // HAS to be double quotes, single won't do it

If incorrect, it calls the error handler. Easy fix but took a bit to figure out.