How to manage a redirect request after a jQuery Ajax call

I resolved this issue like this:

Add a middleware to process response, if it is a redirect for an ajax request, change the response to a normal response with the redirect url.

class AjaxRedirect(object):
  def process_response(self, request, response):
    if request.is_ajax():
      if type(response) == HttpResponseRedirect:
        r = HttpResponse(json.dumps({'redirect': response['Location']}))
        return r
    return response

Then in ajaxComplete, if the response contains redirect, it must be a redirect, so change the browser's location.

$('body').ajaxComplete(function (e, xhr, settings) {
   if (xhr.status == 200) {
       var redirect = null;
       try {
           redirect = $.parseJSON(xhr.responseText).redirect;
           if (redirect) {
               window.location.href = redirect.replace(/\?.*$/, "?next=" + window.location.pathname);
           }
       } catch (e) {
           return;
       }
   }
}

I just wanted to latch on to any ajax requests for the entire page. @SuperG got me started. Here is what I ended up with:

// redirect ajax requests that are redirected, not found (404), or forbidden (403.)
$('body').bind('ajaxComplete', function(event,request,settings){
        switch(request.status) {
            case 301: case 404: case 403:                    
                window.location.replace("http://mysite.tld/login");
                break;
        }
});

I wanted to specifically check for certain http status codes to base my decision on. However, you can just bind to ajaxError to get anything other than success (200 only perhaps?) I could have just written:

$('body').bind('ajaxError', function(event,request,settings){
    window.location.replace("http://mysite.tld/login");
}