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I have a .NET .ashx handler, which receives a jQuery AJAX post, formats a web service request to a third-party service and consumes the result. On success, it instantiates an anonymous object with the relevant information and formats a JSON response string. In the event of a web service error, I do the following: context.Response.StatusCode = (int)HttpStatusCode.InternalServerError; context.Response.StatusDescription = wsResult.ErrorCode; This makes both the status code and description easily accessible to the jQuery AJAX error callback; however, the way I have implemented this is quite arbitrary. After doing some reading around, I can't find a conclusive answer to the following question: Is there an accepted, universal convention (or - even - specification ) for returning error states to JSON-based AJAX calls, which allows any consumer to know what to expect, or is this as arbitrary as a return type for any other function call? So, is this a perfectly acceptable way of returning an error status to the AJAX caller, or is there a "proper" way of formatting a JSON error response?

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