In your page http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/autocompletebox-onclientrequestfailed.html you only have one message to show to the user, why not return de http status code?
In this moment the workaround suggested by your team is:
<script>
Telerik.Web.UI.WebServiceLoader.prototype._onWebServiceError = function (error, context)
{
var errorEventArgs = new Telerik.Web.UI.WebServiceLoaderErrorEventArgs(error.get_statusCode().toString(), context);
this._raiseEvent("loadingError", errorEventArgs);
}
function OnClientRequestFailed(sender, args) {
console.log(args.get_errorMessage());
}
</script>