Just so people are aware IE has no support for SSE[1]. IE is still commonly used in enterprises despite it many and continuous flaws.
So far Jenkins has been pretty browser agnostic. /James [1] http://status.modern.ie/serversenteventseventsource On Thursday, 29 May 2014 08:26:38 UTC+1, Tom Fennelly wrote: > > > On 29/05/2014 02:57, Michael Neale wrote: > > > On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Christopher Orr > <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> >> It may also be worth considering Server Sent Events — basically one-way >> "push" from the server, without all the handshaking and protocol upgrade >> fun of WebSockets. Could be useful if clients are just listening for >> server updates, without sending anything (as is generally the case today). >> >> Last week I wrote a quick experimental plugin to stream log events as >> they happen via SSE to remote JavaScript clients for any running build; I >> was surprised how simple it was to build.. >> >> (Though I just noticed that it has less support than WebSockets (thanks, >> Microsoft): http://caniuse.com/eventsource) >> >> Chris >> >> >> >> > +1 on SSE. I have a fair bit of experience with websockets on servers - > enough to know that almost no one gets their proxies right - and it is a > source of complaints. SSE seems to work better out of the box, > alternatively long polling/comet can also work (a given jenkins master > doesn't have to scale to 10s of thousands concurrent users, which is the > assumption for a lot of other web choices). > > Having said that, nearly halfway through 2014 websockets is probably not > a controversial choice and does open up a lot of other options. If someone > is accessing their jenkins via a proxy, ssl and careful configuration is > required to support http upgrade and not break websocket too. > > AFAIK... any proxy/gateway between the websocket client and server needs > to be pretty much websocket aware. SSE would seem like a perfect fit for > Jenkins since the client is listening only (not sending back to the server > - could implement that on top anyway if needed). As far as I know SSE is a > fancy long poll/comet style protocol and so would require the same > considerations re number of concurrent users. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
