Server-sent events versus WebSockets
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Server-sent events stream text events from server to client over plain HTTP with automatic reconnection and last-event IDs; WebSockets provide a bidirectional binary-capable channel with its own protocol. Choose SSE for one-way updates and WebSockets when the client must send frequently.
What it is
The HTML standard defines EventSource: the client opens a long-lived GET with Accept: text/event-stream, the server sends event:, data: and id: lines separated by blank lines, and the browser reconnects automatically, sending Last-Event-ID. RFC 6455 defines WebSockets: an HTTP upgrade handshake followed by framed, bidirectional messages (text or binary) with ping/pong and close frames.
Why it matters
Both push data to clients, but they differ in complexity: SSE reuses HTTP semantics (authentication, proxies, compression, HTTP/2 multiplexing) and needs no extra protocol; WebSockets need their own routing, keep-alive and message framing but support client-to-server traffic at scale.
How to apply
- Notifications, progress, logs, feeds: SSE. Include an
idper event so reconnection resumes; send a comment line periodically as a heartbeat. - Chat, collaborative editing, games, high-frequency client input: WebSockets, with a defined message schema and a close-code convention.
- Behind reverse proxies, disable buffering for SSE and raise idle timeouts for both; test through the real proxy.
- Provide a polling fallback for environments that block long-lived connections.
Pitfalls
SSE is text-only and UTF-8; binary data needs encoding. Browsers limit connections per origin on HTTP/1.1, which bites SSE with many tabs. WebSocket connections bypass CORS; check Origin on the server.
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출처
- HTML Living Standard: Server-sent events — 2026-10-23 확인: 접근 가능, 인용문 있음
- RFC 6455: The WebSocket Protocol — 2026-10-23 확인: 접근 가능, 인용문 있음
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