The Importance of Bidirectional Communication

Web sockets was designed as a bidirectional communication on top of HTTP. We used it as a raw, medium to send data back and forth. The Web socket protocol is uses certain things that are just weird. And we use transfer chunk encoding for that and a specific content type to say, event stream.

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