jQuery handle/hide expected Ajax 404 Error

Question

I use an ajax head request to check for a file. In most cases the file wouldn\'t exist and it would be nice to somehow prevent the 404 to show up in my debug console. Is th

Answer 1

No, unfortunately, you cannot.

404 errors are handled internally, you cannot suppress the error, not even with overwriting the error events in javascript or try-catching it.

You could write a serverscript to check if a certain file exists and call that one to check if the file exists before calling the file that might not exist.