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karan Badhwar
Web Development Techdegree Graduate 18,135 Pointsonreadystatechange
Can somebody please explain me what is onreadystatechange event, as we just refreshed the page so how come the state was changed for the ajax request, coz we never asked specifically to look for the state change
karan Badhwar
Web Development Techdegree Graduate 18,135 PointsHey Caleb Kemp , thanks again for helping me out, I got it now
Caleb Kemp
12,754 PointsGlad I was able to be of assistance
Caleb Kemp
12,754 PointsCaleb Kemp
12,754 PointsOk, have you ever been surfing the web and received a 404 error (page not found). When a website loads it will also send a status code, if working properly that code will usually be 200. Similar to that, the
onreadystatechangemethod will listen to the browser for a "ready state" code. So, when the request is made, the ready state will be something like 1. Once the file has fully downloaded, the browser will change that ready state property to 4.The state changed because the file asked for finished downloading.