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

This polyfill adds Authorization Header support: https://github.com/Yaffle/EventSource/

So you can do:

new EventSource("https://domain/stream", { authorizationHeader: "Bearer ..." });