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HTTP streaming—often referred to as Comet—lets the server push information to the browser without waiting for the client to poll. Instead of closing the connection immediately, the server keeps the request open and flushes data as soon as it becomes available. The browser receives the response, processes it, and immediately opens a new request, ...

Modern web applications often require real-time updates from server to client. A common approach is WebSockets, but another mechanism—Server-Sent Events (SSE)—can serve this purpose efficiently using standard HTTP. SSE relies on the Content-Type: text/event-stream header defined in HTML5. Server-Sent Events Overveiw SSE provides a lightweight u ...