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by anderspitman 1939 days ago
Sadly it's not entirely unfounded. SSE on HTTP/1.1 is basically useless due to the connections-per-domain limits implemented in browsers. So WebSockets got a lot of mindshare while we waited for HTTP/2.

But today I always start with plain HTTP, then try SSE, and finally WebSockets if I have to.