The pseudo-BNF description for the server sent events stream contains the following: <event> ::= [ <comment> | <command> | <field> ]* <newline> <special> ::= ':' <data> <newline> I assume <special> should be <command> instead. http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-event -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/