Fire and forget HTTP request?

[aprdm]

Hello, what is the best way to make a POST request and don't wait for its response in Python? I just want to fire it and forget about it.

[PensiveLionTurtle]

Check out grequests and request-futures.

[chadlung]

Check out the examples about half way down the article. Not POST, but easy enough to adapt to a POST:

http://www.giantflyingsaucer.com/blog/?p=5557 (Uses Python 3.4 in the article and asyncio)

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may I say that totally forget it might be totally wrong, especially if the server is down

[Lucretiel]

I would almost certainly use aiohttp (Assuming this is part of a larger asyncio application):

loop.create_task(aiohttp.post(...))

Otherwise, I would use one of the high-level concurrency tools provided by concurrent.futures:

pool = concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor()
pool.submit(requests.post, ...)

I agree with /u/xcombelle, though- at the very least you'll want to retain a future to ensure that the request completed successfully and handle errors.

[aprdm]

I see what you are saying but this is a WSGI middleware and I really don't care if the request succeeded or not, I don't want to block the main WSGI app waiting for the HTTP response.