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Jonathan Wood
Jonathan Wood

Reputation: 67355

Preventing AJAX call from timing out

One of my websites needs to call the API of another one of my websites.

My plan to display a "wait" popup while the page makes an AJAX call to direct the server-side code to make the API call.

But there is the potential that it could take a little while. I'm looking for advice on how to prevent the AJAX call from timing out.

When I Google this issue, most of the articles I've read suggest sending just a few items at a time. But in my case, it's all done in one rather substantial call.

What other options are there to prevent the page from timing out?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1639

Answers (2)

PM.
PM.

Reputation: 1721

Based on the comments, I got that your need to keep server pinging in some particular time interval.

setInterval(function() {
  $.ajax({url: "ping.txt", 
          success: function(result){
                       //Nothing to do, or your can check the content of your ping.txt
                    },
          error : function(){
                               //Code to show your wait popup
                 }
          });
}, 60000);

This will keep your connection alive i.e. you would know if you are connected to the server.

You need to put ping.txt on your server accordingly.

Upvotes: 0

Andy Donegan
Andy Donegan

Reputation: 915

If you cant implement loading in packets etc, then timeout is probably your best option.

 $.ajax({
        dataType: "json",
        url: uriTrackers, // Your URL here.
        //data: data,  //we are not sending data, this is a different data to the one below
        timeout: 10000 //10 second timeout  or maybe 30 secs if debugging
    })
            .done(function (data) {
    // Anything you want to do on success here.
            })
        .fail(function (jqXHR, textStatus, err) {
            $('#TrackerInfo').text('Error: ' + err + uriTrackers);

        });

Upvotes: 2

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