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by 1xdevloper 1184 days ago
Probably because they're using a polyfill[0][1] to handle the event stream.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55201372/event-stream-da... [1] https://github.com/EventSource/eventsource/issues/94

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And that's because the native EventStream API only supports GET requests, so if you want to use a POST request (which make more sense in this context) you have to use a custom implementation...