Server sent events work, but with a massive time delay

Question

Ill start off by saying this works perfectly on my local machine, the js example below connects to stream.php and receives a continuous update of the servers current time every

Answer 1

just add, ob_flush(); before flush() function in stream.php

updated stream.php script is as below, observe ob_flush() function before flush() function.

while(true)
{
    // Headers must be processed line by line.
    header('Content-Type: text/event-stream');
    header('Cache-Control: no-cache');

    // Set data line
    print "data: " . date( 'G:H:s', time() ) . PHP_EOL . PHP_EOL;

    // Toilet
    **ob_flush();**
    flush();

    // Wait one second.
    sleep(1);
}