Possible to make AJAX call that doesn't return?

Question

Is it possible to send an jQuery.ajax call or equivalent without any sort of response? I want to trigger something on the server as I leave the page with the onbeforeunload

Answer 1

Assuming you're using something like this:

$.ajax({
   url: "test.html",
   context: document.body
})

(borrowed from http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/ and edited), you can discard the response.