Show HN: Http longpolling made easy in golang

Posted by jcuga on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @10:40AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://github.com/jcuga/golongpoll#basic-usage

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Re:Show HN: Http longpolling made easy in golang by samwillis on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @01:44PM (#10548359)

You should have a look at adding Server Sent Events / EventSource support [1]. Its propper streaming events, not closing the connection (not web socket, just http) that fall back to long polling.

Most of the time when people use websockets they should just be using SSE.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server-sent_events

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Re:Show HN: Http longpolling made easy in golang by jcuga on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @02:47PM (#10548789)

I originally used SSE events but ran into issues. see: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30462850/ie11-sse-via-pol...

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