[whatwg] EventSource remark

[Ian Hickson]

On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Anselm R Garbe wrote:
> 
> I came across this one today:
> 
> http://dev.w3.org/html5/eventsource/
> 
> In section 8 the following is said
> 
> "[..] Authors are also cautioned that HTTP chunking can have unexpected 
> negative effects on the reliability of this protocol. Where possible, 
> chunking should be disabled for serving event streams unless the rate of 
> messages is high enough for this not to matter. [..]"
> 
> Is there any evidence for this? I'm curios to get some insight ;)

It's not really chunking that's the problem specifically, it's the caching 
that servers who support chunking often perform.

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