Re: Server-Sent Events contradiction

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:

> Since none of the browsers I could test reconnect for 500s currently as
> far as I can tell, I've changed the spec to not make 5xxs reconnect. The
> server load issue seems like a pretty big deal.


Ordinary exponential backoff deals with the server load issue.  It doesn't
make sense for a transient error to cause the connection to permanently
fail.  All this does is make web developers do it themselves, which we
shouldn't need to deal with.

-- 
Glenn Maynard