Question

I trying to make the AJAX request time-out if the web server goes down. Does anyone have a good way of doing this?

Answer 1

jQuery offers a beautiful solution

$.ajax({
    type: "GET",
    timeout: 5000,
    url: "myurl.com",

    success: function(data) {
        alert('Data load: '+ data);
    },

    error: function(){
        alert('Error loading data');
    }
});