Robert, >> I already blogged about 2 straightforward approaches: >> http://blog.pengoworks.com/blogger/index.cfm?action=blog:605 >> >> And example code: >> http://www.pengoworks.com/workshop/jquery/session_expired_example.cfm >> >> All of this is pretty easy to integrate into your site's JS framework so >> it's handled consistently across the board. >> >> -Dan >> > >your solution, working with response headers is nice. i think one part >of the question is: how can that be done global in the application. >looking at the docs, there seems to no hook for that: >http://docs.jquery.com/Ajax_Events, since the local defined callbacks >are evaluated first. there certainly is a possibility to overide >something in the ajax object...
Actually if you use the 403 - Forbidden HTTP response status code, then it should trigger the ajaxError() event: http://docs.jquery.com/Ajax/ajaxError#callback This means you could really easily add a check to see if the status code is 403 and then handle things appropriately. -Dan
