[Ajax] response time is very-very slow

[ankur rathi]

I am using this auto complete script for displaying suggestions: auto complete.

I read some old post having same sort of issue and found it's because of server side processing, JS merely take time.

But here in my case:

    
function showMatchingNames() {
if(ajaxRequest.readyState == 4) {
var ajaxResponse = ajaxRequest.responseText;
alert(ajaxResponse);
matchingNames = ajaxResponse.split('|');
actb(document.getElementById("a"), matchingNames);
}
}

I am alerting server response first and then callig this ac script. Server response is coming in reasonable time (not fast though) but suggestions are getting displayed after a huge time delay. Moreover matchingNames array has only 2-3 values at this time.

What could be the problem?

TIA.

[ankur rathi]

One difference I found is:

They are NOT calling this function on any event:

    
<input type='text' style='font-family:verdana;width:300px;font-size:12px' id='tb' value=''/>
<script>
var obj = actb(document.getElementById('tb'),customarray);
</script>

And I am calling a JS function on onKeyUp event of textbox, that JS function sends Ajax request... and then in callback function, I am calling this actb() function. :roll:

[Ulf Dittmer]

Which part (or statement) of the code takes a long (too long) time? What does the actb function do - does the delay get introduced there?

[Eric Pascarello]

You probbaly need to make your serverside code faster if it takes a long time.

Eric