What are the status values you need to deal with when working with AJAX

The XMLHttpRequest object has few properties

 

onreadystatechange: The event handler that fires at every state change, typically a call to a JavaScript function.

 

readyState: The state of the request. The five possible values are 0 = uninitialized, 1 = loading, 2 = loaded, 3 = interactive, and 4 = complete.

 

responseText: The response from the server as a string.

 

responseXML: The response from the server as XML. This object can be parsed and examined as a DOM object.

 

status: The HTTP status code from the server (that is, 200 for OK, 404 for Not Found, and so on).

 

statusText: The text version of the HTTP status code (that is, OK or Not Found, and so on).

 

 

Here is a example code which demonstrates how these atributes can be used

 

 

function doSomething() {
 //..do something here, like adding parameter values etc...
 xmlHttp.open("GET", url);
 xmlHttp.onreadystatechange = callback;
 xmlHttp.send(null);
}

function callback() {
  if (xmlHttp.readyState == 4) {
    if (xmlHttp.status == 200) {
        //do you required work here
    }
  }
}

Notice the line 

xmlHttp.onreadystatechange = callback;
 
in doSomething method which is assigning a value as "callback" to the onreadystatechange attribute. 
The value is name of a method which called every time readystate of XMLHttpRequest object is changed.
 

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