Server-Sent Events (HTML Standard)
- Category
- Web and networking protocols
- Docs outline
- 6 sections
Official docs outline
html.spec.whatwg.org- Introduction
Using EventSource to receive a unidirectional stream of events over HTTP.
- The EventSource interface
Constructor, readyState, onopen/onmessage/onerror and withCredentials.
- Processing model
Connection, reconnection and failure handling.
- Parsing an event stream
Line grammar: data, event, id and retry fields.
- Interpreting an event stream
Dispatching events and the last-event-ID buffer.
- Authoring notes
Keepalive comments and proxy buffering considerations.
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