jquery ajax get example

ajax, get, jquery, post

Solution

You can decide if you want the ajax call to be async or not using this:

$.ajax({
  async: false/true,
  //more options
});

Problem

At the moment I'm using the post method like this ``` $.ajax({ type: "POST", url: "Servicename.asmx/DoSomeCalculation", data: "{param1ID:"+ param1Val+"}", contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8", dataType: "json", success: function(msg) { UseReturnedData(msg.d); }, error: function(err) { alert(err.toString()); if (err.status == 200) { ParseResult(err); } else { alert('Error:' + err.responseText + ' Status: ' + err.status); } } }); ``` Am I correct in believing that if I use a GET request instead of POST the behavior will change to being a synchronous request i.e. the execution will wait until the response has been received from the server?? Can somebody show me a jquery GET example calling a webmethod of a web service directly? UPDATE: Using the async flag as suggested below is really all i needed to do so this works for me. I'm still curious as to what work needs to be done to the code above to make it a GET request. Changing type: "GET" doesn't have the desired effect!

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