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    <p>I have a site where users can publish links. Users fill a form with 2 fields:</p> <ul> <li>Title </li> <li>URL</li> </ul> <p>When the user clicks "submit" I have a crawler that looks for an image of the link provided and makes a thumbnail.</p> <p>The problem is that <strong>the crawler usually takes about 5-10 seconds to finish loading</strong> and cropping the thumb.</p> <p>I thought I could do an ajax call like this. As you can see, when the user submits a link first we see if its valid (first ajax call) then if succesful we do another ajax call to try to find and save the image of this link.</p> <p>My idea was to do that while I move the user to the links.php page, however, I find that if I do it like this the AJAX call breaks and the function in <code>save_image.php</code> doesn't run.</p> <p>What can I do to avoid making my users wait for the <code>save_image.php</code> process? I need this process to run, but I don't need any data returned.</p> <pre><code>$.ajax({ url: 'publish/submit_link.php', type: 'POST', dataType: 'JSON', data: { link : link, title : title, }, success: function (data) { if (data) { $.ajax({ url: 'publish/save_image.php', type: 'POST', data: { id : data.id, type : data.type, url : url, csrf_test_name : csrf } }); } //THIS NEXT LINE BREAKS SECOND AJAX CALL window.location = 'links.php'; } }); </code></pre> <p>Thanks in advance!</p> <p><strong>SUMMING UP:</strong> I want the user to submit a link and redirect the user to the links page <strong>while the thumbnail for that link is being generated</strong>. I don't want to show the thumbnail to the user.</p>
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    1. COLet me get this straight... You want the user to submit a link, then generate a thumbnail, then **show it to the user**. Is that correct? So you expect the link (and thumbnail) to be there by the time the user loads `links.php`?
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    2. COI want the user to submit a link and redirect the user to the links page while the thumbnail is being generated. I don't want to show the thumbnail to the user.
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