# Web socket - persistent connection

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**Created:** [June 2, 2018, 9:50pm UTC](https://forums.losant.com/t/web-socket-persistent-connection/964 "2018-06-02T21:50:09Z")\
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[socket.io](http://socket.io) is not supported directly with Losant. Since this post was original created, however, we have released [Streaming Endpoints](https://docs.losant.com/experiences/streaming-endpoints/), which utilizes [Server-Sent Events](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Server-sent_events) under the hood.

Server-sent events provide real-time streaming of data in one direction: from the server to the client (usually a web browser).

To send data from the client to the server, a basic POST request to a standard [Experience Endpoint](https://docs.losant.com/experiences/endpoints/) works very well.

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