"unresolving" a deferred object

Question

In short, is there a way to "unresolve" a deferred object?

For example: We have a list of data that needs to be updated periodically, or when an event is triggered. It would be great to take a deferred object created with .ajax() and pass it's promise around to gather callbacks. Then "fire" that ajax request whenever we want and have all the callbacks react. Is that possible?

Cheers

Answer 1

As of jQuery 1.7, there is progress() that can be used for multi-fire situations.