Fetching url in the background

[brendon]

Hi @markevans, one of the issues with fetching url-based files is the delay while the server downloads the file to store. Do you think there's a way to offload the download to a background process and immediately return? When the download completes, the meta-data can be updated in the database.

I can think that there'd probably be problems around broken URL's and other validation issues. I was just wondering if you've ever done any thinking around how that could potentially work?