PHP: Possible to send post request then quit connection?
<p>I have a site (site a) that gets requests (from site b) and then returns the number of people, on a per ZIP basis, that meet the qualifications.  I've created the request handler on site a to store the request information in the database, and also start the fulfillment of the request. </p>

<p>My problem is this though: the requests can take anywhere from 4 to 5 minutes to complete due to the amount of people in the database (over 300 million).  Because of this time, site b is returning timeout issues even though the count fulfillment was still running.  </p>

<p>So my question is: Is there a way to trigger a URL request but then not listen for a return?</p>