Dynamic Script Tags for JSON requests... detecting if there is a XXX error?

dynamic, javascript, json, scripting

Solution

use ajax instead. AFAIK there is no way to detect if a script tag loads or not, and if not, why it didn't load. Using ajax you can load the json and it will tell you why it didn't load.

Using a library like jQuery this becomes very simple:

$.ajax({
  type: "GET",
  url: "test.js",
  dataType: "script",
  error: function(xhr, error, exception){
    alert(xhr.status); //Will alert 404 if the script does not exist
  }
});

Problem

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