If you just want to call an url and you don't need the result, you can perform the url fetch in a task and just add that task to a queue from your request handler.
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Albert <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > I'm using Google Analytics for Mobile Browsers wherein I connect with > Google Analytics servers via my appengine app to track users. > > For performance reasons, I'm thinking of using asynchronous URLfetch > to call the google analytics tracking url near the "middle" of my > request handler code. > > Well, I'm not really interested in the result of that urlfetch, so I'm > not interested in calling get_result(). So I don't want my app to wait > for the result, and just increase the time for the user to wait. I > just want it successfully called. > > The documentation for Asynchronous URLfetch (http://code.google.com/ > appengine/docs/python/urlfetch/asynchronousrequests.html<http://code.google.com/%0Aappengine/docs/python/urlfetch/asynchronousrequests.html>) > states "If > the app request timer expires while the app is waiting, the call is > canceled." > > What does it mean by "the call is canceled"? > > My current request handler usually returns within 40-70ms (without the > urlfetch), and I'd like to keep it that way. > > I haven't tested this in production. Will this be an OK practice? > > Thanks! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-appengine%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
