By sloss196
A core part of our infrastructure uses Server Side Events for sending uni-directional messages to our clients, and distribution to other processes. Though on the app-platform requests time out [even when pings are sent] and it can take a while for a ton of messages to appear to the client. It’s almost like the app-platform is caching then, and waiting to send them 5 minutes later – just all at once.
This is very annoying and is making our move to the app platform even more questionable, especially considering the lack of support for CORS include-credentials so we can do requests to different subdomains.
Thanks,
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Hi @sloss196,
Unfortunately long-lived HTTP requests are not officially supported on App Platform as you’ll run into limitations around buffering and timeouts as you can see. We recommend using websockets as a more reliable method to push data from the server to the client.
Could you please expand on the CORS include-credentials bit? Do you mean you need to set the Access-Control-Allow-Credentials header?
Are there any plans to support long-lived HTTP requests on App Platform? We also need them for two of our applications.
I spent ages trying to debug this issue. This is a blocker for me, and means I can’t host my project on DO which is a shame as I really enjoyed the experience up until this.
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