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Huh, I just moved my NSFW scraper to serve me content through HTTP2 server push. Guess it’s back to the drawing board.

[le: curious about the downvotes (-3), for anyone willing to shed some light]

(le2: turns out I’m using Server Side Events and not HTTP2 server push; sry for the noise)

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You can use HTTP3... unless they find out it also has a design flaw and it's time to move to the next thing

This is one of the reasons HTTP/1.1 will still be reliable and workable decades from now, and every HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 client will be long gone. Google has just taken their ridiculous deprecation policies and applied them to web standards bodies.

Server push was removed from Chrome, but it wasn't removed from HTTP/2.

Can you elaborate, for my friend, please.

Not all that complicated, I have some places on the interwebz where my kind of NSFW content is posted so I scrape those and maintain an SQLite database of direct urls.

Over that database I have a tiny Koa server that checks if URL is still active, processes image in memory and serves it through HTTP2 over to a Preact app that handles displaying them.

I do this so I can share this with some people, and allow them to share some stuff without exposing myself to liability for hosting.

I'm fairly certain you are confusing Server Push with something else, because as far as I can tell Server Push is not useful for doing what you describe.

Clients connect to server, connection kept open and server push the base64 data to all connected clients.

that's not Server Push, but Server-Sent Events probably

Thanks for this! You are right. I’ll update my posts and perhaps this also answers my question of why I am downvoted! I’m using SSE indeed.

> I do this so I can share this with some people, and allow them to share some stuff without exposing myself to liability for hosting.

I don't know what country you live in, but here where I live (in the US) you definitely aren't avoiding any legal definition of hosting by only relaying.

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