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@algernon no, I mean on a higher level.

Chunked encoding is one of the ways to drliver a response incrementally.

The browser makes several types of http requests that are not initiated by JS - requests for img src, for stylesheets, for the html document itself, etc.

Which of those accidentally support incremental responses, and who was the first to abuse it as a way to send server-initiated content changes?