For cross site ajax, when remote site is down error handlers are not called.

Here is my mod for error handling:

-------------------START line:3473 in v1.3.2

If we're requesting a remote document

and trying to load JSON or Script with a GET

if ( s.dataType == "script" && type == "GET" && parts

&& ( parts[1] && parts[1] != location.protocol || parts[2] != location.host )){

var head = document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0];

var script = document.createElement("script");

script.src = s.url;

if (s.scriptCharset)

script.charset = s.scriptCharset;

Error handling on firefox (DOM standard)

script.onerror = function(){

jQuery.handleError(s, null, "error");

complete();

};

Handle Script loading

if ( !jsonp ) {

var done = false;

Attach handlers for all browsers

script.onload = script.onreadystatechange = function(){

if ( !done && ( !this.readyState ||

this.readyState == "loaded" || this.readyState == "complete") ) {

done = true;

Note that IE will call success even when connection is down

We can't do anything about it since IE doesn't have a way to tell

success();

complete();

Handle memory leak in IE

script.onload = script.onreadystatechange = null;

head.removeChild( script );

}

};

} else {

script.onreadystatechange = function(){

Error handling for IE:

if connection is down, handler is not run, hence window[ jsonp ] is still there

if ( !done && (this.readyState == "loaded" || this.readyState == "complete")

&& window[ jsonp ] ) {

done = true;

Handle memory leak in IE

script.onreadystatechange = null;

window[ jsonp ] = undefined;

try{ delete window[ jsonp ]; } catch(e){}

if ( head )

head.removeChild( script );

jQuery.handleError(s, null, "error");

complete();

}

};

}

Use insertBefore instead of appendChild to circumvent an IE6 bug.

This arises when a base node is used (#2709 and #4378).

head.insertBefore( script, head.firstChild );

We handle everything using the script element injection

return undefined;

}

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