Alex Gleason on nostr

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Nostr should have also supported plain HTTP from the get go. Websockets are unreliable under some conditions, and polling works just fine for a ton of usecases - and have more tooling making it even ...

Alex Gleason @Alex Gleason 1771003280

This is most likely a cope, get gud, websockets IS http, etc. Nostr needs millisecond timestamps.

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Silberengel · 12w

Only the handshake is HTTP. They switch to WSP, after that, and are full duplex.

Websockets set a false expectation that by subscribing you will keep receiving data, which fails in many situations. Now you need to use more libraries to deal with that. Everybody knows curl, nobody knows nak.