Is an EventSource (SSE) supposed to try to reconnect indefinitely?

Question

I\'m working on a project utilizing Server-Sent-Events and have just run into something interesting: connection loss is handled differently between Chrome and Firefox.

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Answer 1

What I've noticed (in Chrome at least) is that when you close your SSE connection using close() function, it won't try to reconnect again.

var sse = new EventSource("...");
sse.onerror = function() {
    sse.close();
};