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by quickthrower2 1594 days ago
Is it worth upgrading a long polling solution to SSE? Would I see much benefit?

What I mean by that is client sends request, server responds in up to 2 minutes with result or a try again flag. Either way client resends request and then uses response data if provided.
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bullen 1594 days ago
Yes, since IE7 is out of the game long-polling is no longer needed.

Comet-stream and SSE will save you alot of bandwidth and CPU!!!

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layer8 1594 days ago
What is particular about IE7? According to https://caniuse.com/eventsource, SSE is unsupported through IE11.
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bullen 1593 days ago
You don't need to use Event-Source to use SSE, look at how I implemented it here:

https://github.com/tinspin/fuse/blob/master/res/play.html#L1...

The XHR ready state 3 was wrongly implemented in IE7, they fixed it in IE8.

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