VietMX Staff asked 3 years ago
Advantages of SSE over Websockets:
- Transported over simple HTTP instead of a custom protocol
- Can be poly-filled with javascript to “backport” SSE to browsers that do not support it yet.
- Built in support for re-connection and event-id
- Simpler protocol
- No trouble with corporate firewalls doing packet inspection
Ideal use cases of SSE:
- Stock ticker streaming
- twitter feed updating
- Notifications to browser
