Question

I’m trying to determine if I can use a line like:

if request.xhr?
  do something
else
  do something else
end

in my rails app, if I know that a particular method might be called by the .load() method in jQuery. So, is .load() XHR, or do servers treat it like a HTML request?

Thanks

Answer 1

I’m not sure what you mean by HTML request. Any request made to your web server is an HTTP request, however. I believe the .xhr? method is just checking for the X-Requested-With header to be set to XMLHttpRequest.

I believe .load() does set that header (as all the other jQuery ajax methods do).