jquery - Getting AJAX response body for use in error callback

Question

jQuery's AJAX error function has the following parameters:

error(XMLHttpRequest, textStatus, errorThrown)

What's the best cross-browser way to get the response body?

Does this work (reliably in all browsers)?

$.ajax({
  error: function(http) {
    alert(http.responseText);
  }
});

Answer 1

As of jQuery 1.4.1 you should use:

var json = JSON.parse(xhr.responseText);

See http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.parseJSON/.