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Discussion on: Server Sent Events are still not production ready after a decade. A lesson for me, a warning for you!

 
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Mike Talbot ⭐

Yes we see that all the time too on passwords.

That and the fact that 24% of my users are on IE11. Nice. It's the one thing as a developer of enterprise apps that always concerns me - caniuse.com uses browser stats for visitors - clearly not many devs are running IE11 on their development machine while browsing docs - so the stats always seem very low.

I know where you are coming from with your point on progressive enhancement and the use of SSE. My point is that the documentation says "it does this", many articles about it says "it does this". And then there is a paragraph that says this way down in the bowels of the thing:

Authors are also cautioned that HTTP chunking can have unexpected negative effects on the reliability of this protocol. Where possible, chunking should be disabled for serving event streams unless the rate of messages is high enough for this not to matter.

"Where possible" is the killer :)

And then somewhere else entirely you can find a reference to the fact you can't actually disable chunking on a network you don't own.