[whatwg] Server-Sent Events and CORS

[Anne van Kesteren]

On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:42:07 +0200, Tomi <bosak.tomas at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was recently doing some experiments with Server-Sent Events
> technology and come to an issue when EventSource url resource is from
> a different origin (in my case different subdomain). When this happens
> Chrome 13 gives this:
>
> Uncaught Error: SECURITY_ERR: DOM Exception 18
>
> and Firefox 6 this:
>
> Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at ...url...
>
> In my case requested EventSource url resource is using CORS specific
> Access-Control-Allow-Origin header, but this doesn't help. So here
> comes my question: does Server-Sent Events EventSource meant to
> support CORS enabled url resource or this is a problem of browser
> vendors (or maybe some other problem which I'm not aware of). Thanks
> for your time and help.

Chrome implements an older version of the specification that had the wrong  
error handling. Soon browsers will handle CORS here though.


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Anne van Kesteren
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