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name	managing-long-running-tasks
description	Patterns for orchestrating multi-session tasks with background agents. Use when a task requires many agent iterations, has rate limits, or needs state tracking across sessions.

Managing Long-Running Tasks

State File

Create a state file at task start:

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//the most simple http client: 
//http://nodejs.org/api.html#http-client-183

//dependencies
var http = require('http') //http module
  , sys = require('sys'); //some node core utils
  
//setup the request (this is something like curl...)  
var httpclient = http.createClient( 80, 'finance.yahoo.com' )
  , page = "/";

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//the most simple http client: 
//http://nodejs.org/api.html#http-client-183

//dependencies
var http = require('http') //http module
  , sys = require('sys'); //some node core utils
  
//setup the request (this is something like curl...)  
var httpclient = http.createClient( 80, 'streamerapi.finance.yahoo.com' )
  , page = "/streamer/1.0?s=AAPL,USD=X&o=AAPL,DELL,^DJI,^IXIC,^GSPC,^TYX,^RUT&k=a00,a50,b00,b60,c10,g00,h00,j10,l10,p20,t10,v00,z08,z09&j=c10,j10,l10,p20,t10,v00&r=0&marketid=us_market&callback=parent.yfs_u1f&mktmcb=parent.yfs_mktmcb&gencallback=parent.yfs_gencb";