https://www.hascode.com/tags/sse/ Recent content in Sse on Micha Kops' Tech Notes Hugo en Copyright © 2010 - 2025 Micha Kops. #e9d956c0c0154a221ad83c925346a8fa0e72f866 Sun, 21 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0200 https://www.hascode.com/html5-server-send-events-using-node.js-or-jetty/ Sun, 21 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0200 https://www.hascode.com/html5-server-send-events-using-node.js-or-jetty/ <div id="preamble"> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="paragraph"> <p>The HTML5 working draft describes different techniques to push information from a server to the client and the one described in this tutorial are Server-Send Events (SSE).</p> </div> <div class="paragraph"> <p>Using Server-Send-Events eliminates the need to poll a server periodically for information using AJAX and is really easy to implement because of the simple specification and the fact that nearly all modern browsers already implement this specification.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sect1"> <h2 id="_the_client_side">The Client Side</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="paragraph"> <p>Registering for Server Send Events (SSE) is quite easy .. simply create a new <em>EventSource</em> object that is bound to the URL where the events are propagated.</p> </div>