title: Asynchronous Python - fire and forget HTTP request
body: <p>Not sure if that's achievable. I want to fire an HTTP POST request from a script, but not wait for a response. Instead I want to return immediately.</p>
  
  <p>I tries something along these lines:</p>
  
  <pre><code>#!/usr/bin/env python3
  
  import asyncio
  import aiohttp
  
  async def fire():
      await client.post('http://httpresponder.com/xyz')
  
  async def main():
      asyncio.ensure_future(fire())
  
  if __name__ == '__main__':
      loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
      client = aiohttp.ClientSession(loop=loop)
      loop.run_until_complete(main())
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The script returns immediately without errors, but the HTTP request never arrives at the destination. Can I fire the POST request, but not wait for response from the server, just terminate the moment the request is sent?</p>