[users@httpd] Is it possible to keep a module running after closing a connection?

[Brown Chris-CCB034]

I'm looking at a situation where we'd want to close a connection (for
example the message size is too large) but we'd like to keep the thread
active so that we can perform some other steps before releasing the
thread.  Is this possible?  I've been looking through the apache header
files and nothing stands out to me as a method that would immediately
close the connection without releasing the thread.
 
Any help is greatly appreciated.
 
Thanks,
Chris