How do I close a connection early?

Question

I\'m attempting to do an AJAX call (via JQuery) that will initiate a fairly long process. I\'d like the script to simply send a response indicating that the process has star

Answer 1

A better solution is to fork a background process. It is fairly straight forward on unix/linux:

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You should look at this question for better examples:

PHP execute a background process