Appendix A. The SSE Standard

The official standard for Server-Sent Events is a “W3C Candidate Recommendation” at the time of writing. The latest published version is available from http://www.w3.org/TR/eventsource/.

W3C Candidate Recommendation 11 December 2012

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The bulk of the text of this specification is also available in the WHATWG Web Applications 1.0 specification, under a license that permits reuse of the specification text.

Abstract

This specification defines an API for opening an HTTP connection for receiving push notifications from a server in the form of DOM events. The API is designed such that it can be extended to work with other push notification schemes such as Push SMS.

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