ajax unauthorized,jQuery ajax handle 401 Unauthorized

I am calling third party web page using jQuery ajax. According to their page they sent me status code 200 if log-in success and 401 if log-in unsuccessful. Here is my jquery code sample. This code works fine on IE but not work on Chrome or Firefox. What could be the issue?

$.ajax({

type: 'GET',

url: hostURL + 'j_teo_security_check?callback=?',

dataType: 'json',

data: ({j_username : $("#inp_user_name").val(), j_password: $("#inp_user_pwd").val()}),

statusCode: {

401:function() { alert("401"); },

404:function() { alert("404"); },

200:function() { alert("200"); },

201:function() { alert("201"); },

202:function() { alert("202"); }

},

complete: function(httpObj, textStatus){

alert(httpObj.status);

},

error: function(){

alert("error");

},

async: false

});

I tried all the functions error, success, complete, and statusCode. None of them handle the 401 error.