Asynchronous cgi that returns nothing. Possible? O:-)

[Jon Ribbens]

In article <rphbcu8qlh4qgc1eonmrgts5ug7nv0u41v at 4ax.com>, Fernando Rodríguez wrote:
> No. Step (b) processes the order and does give feedback. Step (a) saves in a
> db some info conatined in a cookie (date of first visit and first referrer). I
> want step (a) to be seamless.

Must admit I don't have a clue what you mean. Why aren't scripts (a)
and (b) in the same script? If they really must be separate scripts,
why doesn't script (a) just output nothing at all to stdout?