18996 2012-09-24 23:13:28 +0000 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 2012-11-25 05:37:03 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED WONTFIX http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian ian mike contributor oldest_to_newest 74372 0 contributor 2012-09-24 23:13:28 +0000 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. Posted from: 69.36.85.89 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/21.0.1180.89 Safari/537.1 78772 1 ian 2012-11-25 05:37:03 +0000 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.