source: TFP-WebServer/WebServer/src/UrlHandlers/SseHandler.cs@ 475

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Net;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Threading;
using Webserver.Permissions;
using Webserver.SSE;

// Implemented following HTML spec
// https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/server-sent-events.html

namespace Webserver.UrlHandlers {
        public class SseHandler : AbsHandler {
                private readonly Dictionary<string, AbsEvent> events = new CaseInsensitiveStringDictionary<AbsEvent> ();

                private ThreadManager.ThreadInfo queueThead;
                private readonly AutoResetEvent evSendRequest = new AutoResetEvent (false);
                private bool shutdown;

                private static readonly Type[] ctorTypes = { typeof (SseHandler) };
                private static readonly object[] ctorParams = new object[1];

                public SseHandler (string _moduleName = null) : base (_moduleName) {
                        ctorParams[0] = this;

                        ReflectionHelpers.FindTypesImplementingBase (typeof (AbsEvent), apiFoundCallback);
                }

                private void apiFoundCallback (Type _type) {
                        ConstructorInfo ctor = _type.GetConstructor (ctorTypes);
                        if (ctor == null) {
                                return;
                        }

                        AbsEvent apiInstance = (AbsEvent)ctor.Invoke (ctorParams);
                        AddEvent (apiInstance.Name, apiInstance);
                }

                public override void SetBasePathAndParent (Web _parent, string _relativePath) {
                        base.SetBasePathAndParent (_parent, _relativePath);

                        queueThead = ThreadManager.StartThread ($"SSE-Processing_{urlBasePath}", QueueProcessThread, ThreadPriority.BelowNormal,
                                _useRealThread: true);
                }

                public override void Shutdown () {
                        base.Shutdown ();
                        shutdown = true;
                        SignalSendQueue ();
                }

                // ReSharper disable once MemberCanBePrivate.Global
                public void AddEvent (string _eventName, AbsEvent _eventInstance) {
                        events.Add (_eventName, _eventInstance);
                        AdminWebModules.Instance.AddKnownModule (new AdminWebModules.WebModule($"webevent.{_eventName}", _eventInstance.DefaultPermissionLevel (), true));
                }

                public override void HandleRequest (RequestContext _context) {
                        string eventName = _context.RequestPath.Remove (0, urlBasePath.Length);

                        if (!events.TryGetValue (eventName, out AbsEvent eventInstance)) {
                                Log.Warning ($"[Web] [SSE] In {nameof (SseHandler)}.HandleRequest(): No handler found for event \"{eventName}\"");
                                _context.Response.StatusCode = (int)HttpStatusCode.NotFound;
                                return;
                        }

                        if (!IsAuthorizedForEvent (eventName, _context.PermissionLevel)) {
                                _context.Response.StatusCode = (int)HttpStatusCode.Forbidden;
                                if (_context.Connection != null) {
                                        //Log.Out ($"{nameof(SseHandler)}: user '{user.SteamID}' not allowed to access '{eventName}'");
                                }

                                return;
                        }

                        try {
                                eventInstance.AddListener (_context.Response);

                                // Keep the request open
                                _context.Response.SendChunked = true;

                                _context.Response.AddHeader ("Content-Type", "text/event-stream");
                                _context.Response.OutputStream.Flush ();
                        } catch (Exception e) {
                                Log.Error ($"[Web] [SSE] In {nameof (SseHandler)}.HandleRequest(): Handler {eventInstance.Name} threw an exception:");
                                Log.Exception (e);
                                _context.Response.StatusCode = (int)HttpStatusCode.InternalServerError;
                        }
                }

                private bool IsAuthorizedForEvent (string _eventName, int _permissionLevel) {
                        return AdminWebModules.Instance.ModuleAllowedWithLevel ($"webevent.{_eventName}", _permissionLevel);
                }

                private void QueueProcessThread (ThreadManager.ThreadInfo _threadInfo) {
                        while (!shutdown && !_threadInfo.TerminationRequested ()) {
                                evSendRequest.WaitOne (500);

                                foreach ((string eventName, AbsEvent eventHandler) in events) {
                                        try {
                                                eventHandler.ProcessSendQueue ();
                                        } catch (Exception e) {
                                                Log.Error ($"[Web] [SSE] '{eventName}': Error processing send queue");
                                                Log.Exception (e);
                                        }
                                }
                        }
                }

                public void SignalSendQueue () {
                        evSendRequest.Set ();
                }
        }
}