[PHP] accessing RAW response

Hi, I am posting a request to a server from a PHP and getting a result. When I trap the response, it comes with all the contents. Is there a method to strip off the extra information and just capture the result? For example I get HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 07:25:38 GMT Server: Apache/

[PHP] Executing process in background

Hi, I have to start a task on the server side that is going to take pretty long to process in the server side. So I would like to show a message to the user and ask him/her to check again later. But starting a new task holds up the thread and won't let me exit the php. The user's browser does keep