[viklove]

I can, but why would I limit myself to one-way communication when I can have bidirectional communication?

[anderspitman]

You didn't cite bidi as your reason for choosing WS in your last comment, you cited scaling and node vs ruby.

But to answer this new question:

* You can have bidi without WS.

* Because WS is more complicated.

[viklove]

> You didn't cite bidi as your reason for choosing WS in your last comment, you cited scaling and node vs ruby.

Because I was answering this question: "What's wrong with normal HTTP requests for client->server streams?"

> You can have bidi without WS.

Only by combining HTTP (which doesn't scale because my api server runs rails) and SSE (which does scale). If I want scaling bidirectional communication, I need websockets.

> Because WS is more complicated.

More complicated than SSE? I don't think so.