HTTP Authorization Header in EventSource (Server Sent Events)

Question

I need to set an Authorization header to an HTML5 EventSource. As Server Sent Events seems to be disused since Websockets appeared, I cannot find any useful documentation. The a

Answer 1

EventSource doesn't have an API for sending HTTP headers to server. I was struggling with this problem too when I was building realtime-chat using SSE.

However I think cookies will be sent automatically if your SSE server is the same server as your authentication server.