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I can, but why would I limit myself to one-way communication when I can have bidirectional communication?

• anderspitman 6y ago
  You didn't cite bidi as your reason for choosing WS in your last comment, you cited scaling and node vs ruby. But to answer this new question: * You can have bidi without WS. * Because WS is more complicated.
  • viklove 6y ago
    > You didn't cite bidi as your reason for choosing WS in your last comment, you cited scaling and node vs ruby. Because I was answering this question: "What's wrong with normal HTTP requests for client->server streams?" > You can have bidi without WS. Only by combining HTTP (which doesn't scale because my api server runs rails) and SSE (which does scale). If I want scaling bidirectional communication, I need websockets. > Because WS is more complicated. More complicated than SSE? I don't think so.