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 **CLI walk-through**
 
+Once you [have set up OpenFaaS](https://github.com/alexellis/faas#get-started-with-openfaas) you can follow these instructions:
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 Let's have a quick look at an example function `url-ping` which connects to a remote web server and returns the HTTP code from the response. It's written in Python.
 
 ```python