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Server-Sent Events instead of WebSockets? #93

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NV opened this issue Aug 29, 2011 · 0 comments

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NV commented Aug 29, 2011

http://www.igvita.com/2011/08/26/server-sent-event-notifications-with-html5

If I would write livereload from scratch, I'd rather use Server-Sent Events. No problems with WebSocket protocols versions; it's plain HTTP.

Livereload doesn't use bi-directional communication, i.e. only server → browser used. So WebSockets is a bit of overhead here.

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