On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:56:00 -0700, Ian Hickson <i...@hixie.ch> wrote:
On Tue, 17 Apr 2012, Odin Hørthe Omdal wrote:
I tried yanking the network for 10+ minutes, and when I put the cable in
again, both Firefox and Chromium used 25 seconds to reconnect. When only
yanking it for one minute, the reconnection was much faster (2-5
seconds). This with *reconnection time* set to 500ms.
As far as I can tell, none of that is conforming. If you yank the cable,
they should retry once, then give up, per the spec.
FWIW, this was one of the complaints from the opera mail team when they
put server-sent events to some nice real-world use [1]. In particular:
"We’ve also found a potential related issue with the spec itself: "Any
other HTTP response code not listed here, and any network error that
prevents the HTTP connection from being established in the first place
(e.g. DNS errors), must cause the user agent to fail the connection". This
means that if you lose internet connection (for example pass through a
tunnel on the train), the eventsource will try to reconnect, find there’s
no network and fail permanently. It will not make any further attempts to
connect to the server once a network connection is found again. This same
problem can cause a race condition when waking a computer from sleep as it
often takes a few seconds to re-establish the internet connection. If the
browser tries to re-establish the eventsource connection before the
network is up, it will therefore permanently fail.
This spec problem can be worked around by observing the error event. If
the readyState property is now CLOSED (in readyState 2), we set a 30
second timeout. When this fires, we create a new eventsource object to
replace the old one (you can’t reuse them) which will then try connecting
again; essentially this is manually recreating the reconnect behaviour."
[1]
http://blog.fastmail.fm/2012/01/09/building-the-new-ajax-mail-ui-part-1-instant-notifications-of-new-emails-via-eventsourceserver-sent-events/
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pablo flouret
motorola | webkit / browser team
