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I'm utilizing the magic of jQuery.ajax( settings ).

However, I'm wondering if anyone has played with the timeout setting much?

I know it's basically for dictating the local time for a request, but can it trigger anything if the timeout is reached? Or does it simply stop listening for a response?

Reading the jQuery site, I can see there are no arguments passed, so it seems like a simple setting with one capability. Which is fine.

But, I'd like to trigger an alert or some function if the timeout is reached. I can see that the error setting doesn't get triggered, in this case.

Here's my snippet:

$("form#testform").submit(function(){

var allFormValues = $("form#testform").serialize();

$.ajax({

cache:false,

timeout:8000, // I chose 8 secs for kicks

type:"POST",

url:"someurl.php",

data:allFormValues,

error:function(){ alert("some error occurred") },

success:function(response){ alert(response); }

});

});

Does anyone know how to work more with timeout?