Is it accurate to say this is something like long polling except you continue to hold the connection open for subsequent updates? Does this mean a server potentially needs to hold open a very large number of connections (one per client) even if there are no updates?
And why formalize on HTTP rather than on a similar protocol over websockets?
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Is it accurate to say this is something like long polling except you continue to hold the connection open for subsequent updates? Does this mean a server potentially needs to hold open a very large number of connections (one per client) even if there are no updates?
And why formalize on HTTP rather than on a similar protocol over websockets?
And isn't that just Server-Sent Events (SSE)?