Close Connection and Keep Executing

Question

How can I return a 400 status code and close the connection, without aborting script execution? I'm looking to initiate execution of the script using <cfhttp> but not wait for the script to end before returning.

Answer 1

You need to run the portion of the script you want to keep running after the connection is close, on a different thread.

Here's a tutorial on how to launch a new thread in Coldfusion.

Answer 2

If you want to hit a new request triggered from in another request without waiting just set the cfhttp timeout to 0 and it will return right away without waiting on response. For continuing a script after returning a separate thread may be a better idea but if you are hitting something outside the server or really need a separate request then cfhttp timeout=0 should do the trick.