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Bug 18996 - Problem: There is not a direct way to POST data to an SSE server. For example, a large list of stock symbols (too long for a GET query string) that the SSE server is sending back real-time data for. Solution: Allow for an additional parameter to the Event
Summary: Problem: There is not a direct way to POST data to an SSE server. For example...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-09-24 23:13 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-11-25 05:37 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2012-09-24 23:13:28 UTC 
Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/eventsource/
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top

Comment:
Problem: There is not a direct way to POST data to an SSE server. For example,
a large list of stock symbols (too long for a GET query string) that the SSE
server is sending back real-time data for.

Solution: Allow for an additional parameter to the EventSource constructor
that accepts data that can be POSTed to the SSE server.

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-11-25 05:37:03 UTC 
If you need to send data to the server, use Web Sockets.
If you absolutely want to use EventSource, then just use XMLHttpRequest to post the data first, getting back an ID that represents the configured set, and then pass the ID in the URL in EventSource.