Even though your code returns, the request itself does not return until all
pending async requests complete (or timeout).
Jeff
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Pol wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering, if you start an async urlfetch (or even an async db
> operation) but don't wait for it to complete before returning from the
> handler, what happens? Is the async operation cancelled mid-course or
> does it complete normally, except no callback is called to indicate
> success or failure?
>
> I'm specifically asking because I have to ping an external URL at the
> end of some of the handlers but I don't care about the result of
> urlfetch (as long as the HTTP GET request was sent to the remote
> server that's fine). Being able to have a fire & forget approach on
> this request would save ~100ms.
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Pol
>
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