On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 7:49 PM, Rui Prior <rpr...@dcc.fc.up.pt> wrote: > You can always make POSTs repeatedly, one per chunk, and arrange for the > server to "glue" the chunks together, but for short messages this > process adds a lot of overhead (a full HTTP request per chunk, with full > headers for both the request and the response). Another option would > using websockets, but the protocol is no longer HTTP, which increases > complexity and may bring some issues.
HTTP/2 should solve the overhead issue. > Is there any chance of such feature getting added to the standard in the > future? At the moment we have a feature freeze on XMLHttpRequest. We could consider it for https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/ I suppose, but given the alternatives that are available and already work I don't think it's likely it will get priority. -- https://annevankesteren.nl/