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Bug 13792 - Remove all notes about sharing the connection. It can't work since what's received may depend on the request. It's also not reasonable to buffer every event in case they have to be dispatched again.
Summary: Remove all notes about sharing the connection. It can't work since what's rec...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: WebAppsWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HISTORICAL - Server-Sent Events (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: public-webapps-bugzilla
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-08-16 13:03 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-09-01 00:08 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-08-16 13:03:18 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete/comms.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-eventsource-interface
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-eventsource-interface

Comment:
Remove all notes about sharing the connection. It can't work since what's
received may depend on the request. It's also not reasonable to buffer every
event in case they have to be dispatched again.

Posted from: 194.237.142.10
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/534.26+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0 Safari/534.26+ Ubuntu/10.10 (2.30.6-1ubuntu5) Epiphany/2.30.6
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-09-01 00:08:05 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: The connections are only shared if HTTP semantics say that they're shareable. If two EventSource objects to the same underlying URL are made in identical circumstances at roughly the same time, I see no reason why a browser should be disallowed from sharing the connection.