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A comment on WebSockets vs. Server-Sent-Events vs. Long-Polling vs. WebRTC vs. WebTransport. Parent comment

Re:WebSockets vs. Server-Sent-Events vs. Long-Polling vs. We... by cbsmith on Monday March 18, 2024 @02:40PM (#39748224)
It's been a while since I've used websockets, but at least the last time I did, "simple" wouldn't be the word I'd have used. All kinds of annoying issues between different browsers. SSE was generally much simpler.
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Re:WebSockets vs. Server-Sent-Events vs. Long-Polling vs. We... by mirekrusin on Monday March 18, 2024 @02:45PM (#39748302)
Must have been time when spec wasn't stabilized and browsers have been introducing it. Those times are long gone.
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Re:WebSockets vs. Server-Sent-Events vs. Long-Polling vs. We... by cbsmith on Monday March 18, 2024 @02:58PM (#39748476)
I don't know about long gone. I still support a websocket solution that needs to have server-push as a fallback because of browser incompatibility issues.
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Re:WebSockets vs. Server-Sent-Events vs. Long-Polling vs. We... by mirekrusin on Monday March 18, 2024 @04:25PM (#39749557)
It shouldn't be a problem for about a decade [0]?

What's your hit rate for the fallback?

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebSocket

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Re:WebSockets vs. Server-Sent-Events vs. Long-Polling vs. We... by cbsmith on Monday March 18, 2024 @05:22PM (#39750199)
The hit rate for fallback is pretty low. It was less than 5% the last I checked.
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Re:WebSockets vs. Server-Sent-Events vs. Long-Polling vs. We... by mirekrusin on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @01:31AM (#39753215)
This 5% includes or excludes non-human traffic?
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Re:WebSockets vs. Server-Sent-Events vs. Long-Polling vs. We... by cbsmith on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @06:47PM (#39761101)
Includes.
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Re:WebSockets vs. Server-Sent-Events vs. Long-Polling vs. We... by apitman on Monday March 18, 2024 @03:44PM (#39749055)
Do you have some specific examples?
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Re:WebSockets vs. Server-Sent-Events vs. Long-Polling vs. We... by cbsmith on Monday March 18, 2024 @05:22PM (#39750194)
Old Android handsets seem to be the big ones.
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