AJAX / History - When is the right time to call the `pushState` method in AJAX app?

I'm working with AJAX and history object (with the .pushState method). I just want to know when is the right time to call pushState method? Is it before request? after request? or on what state of XMLHttpRequest's readyState should I call it? As much as possible, I want it to behave like a normal requ开发者_StackOverflowest (without AJAX).

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Only HTTP 200's normally get added to a browsers history. So it probably makes sense to do

readyState == 4 && status == 200

That way if your Ajax call has a 404 error for some reason it won't be added to history just like in normal browsing.