jQuery and AJAX response header

Question

So I\'ve got this jQuery AJAX call, and the response comes from the server in the form of a 302 redirect. I\'d like to take this redirect and load it in an iframe, but when

Answer 1

cballou's solution will work if you are using an old version of jquery. In newer versions you can also try:

  $.ajax({
   type: 'POST',
   url:'url.do',
   data: formData,
   success: function(data, textStatus, request){
        alert(request.getResponseHeader('some_header'));
   },
   error: function (request, textStatus, errorThrown) {
        alert(request.getResponseHeader('some_header'));
   }
  });

According to docs the XMLHttpRequest object is available as of jQuery 1.4.