Handling AJAX Timeouts with Prototype

Over CodeJanitor.com Json has written a script using the prototype, that checks the server and, with the help of a timeout setting, can gracefully let the user know it’s inaccessible.He Writes "I’ve been implementing some AJAX goodness in Mayday and other FastFrame apps lately. In my reading of the various pitfalls of AJAX one that popped up repeatedly was how to handle gracefully a network outage or the webserver going down.

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