// Hacker Noon · 5 June 2026

Why Claude.ai Streams Its Answers Over POST (and How I Reused the Trick Without EventSource)

Open devtools on claude.ai and its streaming answers arrive over a POST request — which the browser's EventSource can't read, since it only does GET. I unpack why this one-request streaming pattern is so convenient, then rebuild it from scratch: a Bun server that returns text/event-stream, plus a 15...

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