What part (success/error) of jquery's ajax receives a redirect status code?

Question

I'm having a redirect sent by my server but jquery's ajax error: callback seems to get xhr.status=200 and status="parseerror"

Anywork around?? I don't want to overload other codes since I use the for the things that they were intended for? Is this just not possible with jquery?

The callback is like this: error: function(xhr, status){...}

Answer 1

When you redirect from the server you can send a response header along with it. And then look for that respone header in the ajax error/success callback. I hope that will help you

 var status =   xhr.getResponseHeader("redirectResponseHeader");//Specify the same name in the server side code

Now using status you can decide what to do.

Answer 2

The redirect codes 301, 302, 303, and 307 are handled by the user agent, so you can't access the redirect code from the callback.
Reference: XMLHttpRequest Level 2 spec