i've been using a very nice xmlhttp 'starter' library from the ajax patterns site. while it's a good library, it's not got all the bells and whistles. one item missing is handling time outs for long-running calls from client to server.
so, keeping it 'in the family' i decided to employ another pattern from the same site. now my library has a solid in-built timeout pattern as well as the ability to register a custom function to handle the time out event.
along the way i decided to adopt the rule of *not* using the .abort() method of the XMLHttpRequest object. while i see some strong debate on this matter, my testing has shown MSIE and FF behave differently when abort() is used. this, alone, along with tests that show invoking abort is not necessary, convinced me to drop it from the library.
so, keeping it 'in the family' i decided to employ another pattern from the same site. now my library has a solid in-built timeout pattern as well as the ability to register a custom function to handle the time out event.
along the way i decided to adopt the rule of *not* using the .abort() method of the XMLHttpRequest object. while i see some strong debate on this matter, my testing has shown MSIE and FF behave differently when abort() is used. this, alone, along with tests that show invoking abort is not necessary, convinced me to drop it from the library.
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