I am building a ajax website i am showing a status of request as request moves from readystate 1,2,3,4(complete), now uptil now i was not using jquery for sending request , now i am planning move to jquery but i seen jquery $.ajax function which provides declaration of only one callback method which gets called on readystate 4 i.e. complete ,is there any way to observe ready state 1,2,3,4 ??? please help