From 006299c9d848da4071258de9ad1c5d7dae4d37f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Ellis <alexellis2@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2017 09:50:33 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Mention  X-Callback-Url

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 guide/chaining_functions.md | 12 ++++++++++++
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diff --git a/guide/chaining_functions.md b/guide/chaining_functions.md
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@@ -79,3 +79,15 @@ GitHub sends a "star" event to tweetfanclub function, tweetfanclub uses get-avat
 This example uses a mix of regular binaries such as ImageMagick and Python handlers generated with the FaaS-CLI.
 
 * [GitHub to Twitter Fanclub](https://github.com/alexellis/faas-twitter-fanclub/blob/master/README.md)
+
+## Asynchronous call-backs
+
+If you invoke a function asynchronously you have two options for getting the result back:
+
+* Update the function
+
+You can update your code to call another function / store state in another service
+
+* X-Callback-Url
+
+If you set a header for `X-Callback-Url` then that will be invoked after the function has run, [read more](https://github.com/openfaas/faas/blob/1aa6270fcc274cc36d90e0a9e4caa3eb71912ae0/guide/asynchronous.md#call-a-function)
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