- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 23:51:04 +0000 (UTC)
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. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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