Re: [whatwg] Minor event-source (SSE) modification

2008-04-22 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Michael Carter wrote: > > Unfortunately, the current Server-sent Events specification provides no > way for a user of the event-source API to know the value of the > lastEventId, thus making it impossible to send an ACK out-of-band. We > have two proposals, either of which

[whatwg] Minor event-source (SSE) modification

2008-04-21 Thread Michael Carter
We're using SSE as a reliable Server -> Browser streaming mechanism where the server maintains a message queue per user connection. The server needs to buffer all messages until it receives an acknowledgment for a given message (ACK). The server sometimes needs to indicate to the Browser that the m