"multi-threaded" CF processing

[ufitzi]

I have researched the following CF options:
Custom Tags
CFC's
CFX
UDF's

Will any of the above technologies allow me to invoke a process while
continuing with the calling pages code?
I have a process to read a file, parse it and update a DB accordingly.
The calling page is of course timing out when the file is of substantial size
(7MB currently), but I don't need to wait for results from my process.

From what I have read/experimented w/, my only option seems to be a CFX tag.
Before I pack up and start down that road, I'd like to know if I have other
options.
Many thanks, dilligent reader!
-ben

[PaulH]

if you're on mx 7, have a look at asynch gateways.

[Mr Black]

This one allows multithreading on any version of CF:

[url]http://www.cftagstore.com/tags/cfxhttp5.cfm[/url]

[johnab]

if you're on mx 7, have a look at asynch gateways.

should add, that's CFMX 7 Enterprise only

[Stefan K.]

Use the cfhttp-tag to call a template on your server which will do the long
task.
By setting the attribute "timeout" of cfHTTP very low while adding a high
Requesttimeout to the cfHTTP-url, you should be able to have the cfhttp-tag
abort very quick while the request generated by cfhttp-url is still running.

Just an idea, think it should work and you can work with CF only.