Can an AJAX object be used for one way communications?

I need to retreive data from a form using a javascript call. From there I need to send the data to a php script that inserts it in 开发者_开发问答to a database. I have an AJAX call that does this...but I know that the AJAX call monitors for a response from there Server. This will work but I'm looking for a more efficient way to do it, i.e. a way to do it with out "monitoring" the server for a response.

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You may want to look at the fire-and-forget pattern for some ideas as to how to do this, and lessons learned.

http://ajaxian.com/archives/ajaxian-fire-and-forget-pattern

There are some lessons there that didn't seem obvious to me, such as this nugget:

We noticed that if we fired off a lot of XHR requests, we would max at 5, and the others died.

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Ajax gets the response from the server it doesn't need to do anything with it. Asynchronous Ajax calls won't block the page that is calling it either.

The server doesn't/can't wait for the response to be received before it processes anything (so I don't think you have a problem to start with).

The server will process the request as soon as it is received. The response being sent back doesn't affect how soon the server can start processing.