Ajax call: Monitor if it is taking long time

Question

I am firing an ajax call to one of my rails server using basic javascript call.

I want to know if there is a way to monitor the ongoing ajax call so that if it takes a lot of time to get the response , I can show an alert saying "Request taking lot of time. Please wait"

Please help.

Thanks

`jQuery config`, there is a `timeout` option..Refer [this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5225597/set-timeout-for-ajax-jquery) — Rayon, Jan 25 '16 at 10:42

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 25 '16 at 10:45

Just use a timer, that you clear when the call is done

var timer = null;

$.ajax({
    url  : 'someurl',
    data : {data: 'data'},
    onbeforesend : function() {
        timer = setTimeout(function() {
            alert('Request taking lot of time. Please wait')
        }, 2000);
    },
    timeout : 10000
}).always(function() {
    clearTimeout(timer);
});

The timeout setting aborts the call if takes too long.

Ajax call: Monitor if it is taking long time

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