About Asynchronous HTTP Request Forwarding

[lizhe19]

In Benthos, if I want to receive a request through http_server and use a branch processor to asynchronously forward the request to another interface (HTTP request) without blocking the original HTTP response return, how do I configure it? I didn't see any related components or parameters

[lizhe19]

Give me a simple example，thank u

[mihaitodor]

Hey @lizhe19, sounds like you want to do a fire&forget kind of setup. One way to do it is to have multiple parallel streams via Streams Mode and use either the http processor or the http_client output to create a new stream via the REST API. This setup is a bit tricky, since you could end up with too many streams running in parallel, so you'll have to be careful with that. Alternatively, you could create your own custom component.

PS: Moving this to a discussion as per #2026.