Asynchronous HTTP requests in PHP

Question

Is there any sane way to make a HTTP request asynchronously in PHP without throwing out the response? I.e., something similar to AJAX - the PHP script initiates the request,

Answer 1

V5 may not be threaded, but you can create applications that exploit in-process multitasking.

Check out the following article: "Develop multitasking applications with PHP V5" from IBM DeveloperWorks. You can find it here http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/os-php-multitask/