13794 2011-08-16 15:53:51 +0000 I think length-prefixed messages would be a lot more useful than line-delimited messages. Sentinel terminators, especially newlines, are more error prone to generate and parse than a few bytes of length prefix followed by a message, repeat. In addition, t 2011-10-04 18:36:09 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WebAppsWG HISTORICAL - Server-Sent Events (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified Other other RESOLVED WONTFIX http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top P3 normal --- 1 contributor ian annevk ian mike public-webapps public-webapps-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 55240 0 contributor 2011-08-16 15:53:51 +0000 Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/eventsource/ Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top Comment: I think length-prefixed messages would be a lot more useful than line-delimited messages. Sentinel terminators, especially newlines, are more error prone to generate and parse than a few bytes of length prefix followed by a message, repeat. In addition, the ability to send blobs with newlines is a big win in terms of the messages that are easily able to be sent across the transport, as well as giving the developer the ability to improve the readability of the protocol which is being sent over the wire, as examined in a packet sniffer. Donovan Preston Posted from: 63.235.13.3 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:8.0a1) Gecko/20110815 Firefox/8.0a1 55247 1 annevk 2011-08-16 20:31:51 +0000 We can always introduce a new format later. I think it is a bit too late to change the current format. 57790 2 ian 2011-10-04 18:36:09 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Rejected Change Description: no spec change Rationale: It's a text format. Text formats are commonly delimited on newlines. As Anne says, if there's a use case for binary blobs, we can add that feature in the future.