Wish HTML5 Server Sent Event Support

[Roycefer]

This article: https://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_serversentevents.asp describes Server Sent Events. It would be pretty neat to be able to implement the server side of this in B4J.

Jetty has an EventSourceServlet that does this: https://archive.eclipse.org/jetty/9...clipse/jetty/servlets/EventSourceServlet.html.

This could be a cool new jServer feature.

I wonder if it might be possible to implement a client in B4X, as well. That's a stretch goal, though.

 

[AHilton]

How is this different than what's already available?

I can send updates to elements on a webpage from a B4J non-ui server without the webpage asking for anything first.

 

[Roycefer]

SSEs are more lightweight, since they are only one direction. If you're only interested in pushing events from a server, this could be a lighter solution that WebSockets.

 

[tchart]

Discussed and already possible

Server-Sent Events - is available on jServer ?

I'm reading a w3schools document where they talk about Server-Sent Events technology It is described as a system that allows you to send web pages from the server to the client So by reversing the normal data flow, it is no longer the client who has to query the server but it is the latter that...

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