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> But HTTP is a text based protocol. Why do you say that? It supports binary content just fine. If that were true images would be horribly inefficient to send,

> But HTTP is a text based protocol. Why do you say that? It supports binary content just fine. If that were true images would be horribly inefficient to send, like they are with smtp (which is an actual text based protocol).

toomim 2y ago
Yes, like for images. You can't send image updates over SSE.
klabb3 2y ago
It’s text by default, but you’re right. I would say it’s idiomatic to use text until needed, at least. But if the CRDT payloads allow binary it makes sense to avoid SSE.