I took a look at the 'Ajax Improvements' demo for 3.6, and specifically the serializeGridData, which appars to be designed to modify the request data prior to the $.ajax() call – however the following options in that example still appear to control the actual $.ajax() request itself –

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ajaxGridOptions : {type:”POST”},

url:'server.php?q=2'

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I may have misunderstood the example, but it wasn't clear to me how I would use this mechanism to modify the request URL, or to use my own framework to make the $.ajax() call – is it possible to remove the above two options completely, so that jqGrid is not responsible for making the call?