Mathew, I believe you can set the value to null or 0 to not have the request time out ... but you may want to implement something on error instead of this to say attempt the search again x times then print msg server is busy or something along those lines.
On Mar 24, 10:51 pm, Mathew <msin...@gmail.com> wrote: > i am using jquery ajax to load search results of a page. and am having > a hard time finding an answer to this question regarding my timeout > time > i have jquery set to timeout 5000 before doing the success functions. > i have noticed on my less than reliable connection that sometimes it > takes longer then 5000 to complete the ajax call and if it does then > the ajax fails to submit. i could up the limit but usually when my > connection is good the call only takes 200. is tehre a way to match > the timeout to however long the call takes? > thanks