Failsafe remote validation with jquery.validate

// adding a remote validation customization, that allows us to submit the form even if the backend validation failed
var remoteFailsafe = function(url) {
  return function(input) {
    return {
        url: url,
        timeout: 10000,
        error: function(request, status) {
          // get the validator object
          var validator = $(input).parents('form').data('validator');
          request.abort();
          // if request failed, try to submit anyway
          if (status === "timeout" && validator.formSubmitted) {
              validator.currentForm.submit();
          }
        }
    };
    
  };
};

// usage example
$("#myform").validate({
  rules: {
    'myfield': {
      required:      true,
      rangelength:   [ 3,25 ],
      remote:        remoteFailsafe("/validate/myfield")
    },
    'myanotherfield': {
      required:      true,
      rangelength:   [ 10,25 ],
      remote:        remoteFailsafe("/validate/myanotherfield")
    }
}});