What's the benefit? I don't need real time events and always close the subscription after an EOSE but websocket still seems nicer bc you don't have to wait to get a big chunk of data.
People are just more used to http reqs than websocket.
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Well. It's sometime easier to code than with WS. WS is almost like reinventing http library in the code if i would say.
It's sometime about caching, compression (as deflate compression still sucks in websocket), and stuff.