# Initiating a GET request and immediately continue w/ action

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/initiating-a-get-request-and-immediately-continue-w-action/119412>\
**Category:** Deployment\
**Created:** [November 6, 2007, 8:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/initiating-a-get-request-and-immediately-continue-w-action/119412 "2007-11-06T20:21:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![ericgoodwin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/c68b51/32.png) [@ericgoodwin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ericgoodwin)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 8:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/initiating-a-get-request-and-immediately-continue-w-action/119412/1 "2007-11-06T20:21:20Z")

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I have an external image processing server and I would like to get that  
action going inline with an action on my current server.

How do I initiate a GET request and not care for the response, so that  
it doesnt halt my action. I understand its flaky in that I don’t know if  
the action completed successfully, but speed is very important here, and  
they have to be inline.

I know I could venture into threading, but I’ve heard bad things about  
that boat. Maybe there is something along the lines of calling a `curl (url)` where curl doesnt care about the response or it gets threaded  
out?

Anyone have suggestions?

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**Author:** ![ericgoodwin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/c68b51/32.png) [@ericgoodwin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ericgoodwin)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 6:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/initiating-a-get-request-and-immediately-continue-w-action/119412/2 "2007-11-07T18:00:30Z")

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This is totally the wrong forum for your question. You should  
probably redirect this question to the ruby on rails talk group, or  
the ruby talk group.

On Nov 6, 11:21 am, Aryk G. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

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**Author:** ![ericgoodwin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/c68b51/32.png) [@ericgoodwin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ericgoodwin)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 10:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/initiating-a-get-request-and-immediately-continue-w-action/119412/3 "2007-11-07T22:47:19Z")

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Yup, I posted here by mistake.

Bram Whillock wrote:

> This is totally the wrong forum for your question. You should  
> probably redirect this question to the ruby on rails talk group, or  
> the ruby talk group.
> 
> On Nov 6, 11:21 am, Aryk G. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)