Subj : webv4/root/api/events.ssjs
To   : Git commit to main/sbbs/master
From : Rob Swindell (on Debian Linux)
Date : Thu Oct 01 2026 20:45:34

https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/commit/8e81b18915e67f826af3e0d7
Modified Files:
	webv4/root/api/events.ssjs
Log Message:
webv4: events.ssjs: don't declare top-level consts

Keyop reported on IRC #synchronet (2026-10-01):

  !JavaScript /sbbs/webv4/root/api/events.ssjs line 13: TypeError:
  redeclaration of const keepalive, Request:
  /api/events.ssjs?subscribe=nodelist

The web server keeps one JS context (and global object) for the life of
a client connection, so every request on a keep-alive connection runs
in the global left behind by the previous one. Re-running a top-level
"const" declaration in that global throws.

events.ssjs never returned while its client was connected until
7399e3a62d (belly-3-lone, 2026-07-29) bounded the stream's lifetime.
Now, when the stream times out and the EventSource reconnects over the
same connection, the script runs a second time and dies at line 13.

Use "var" for the four top-level declarations. The consts inside the
forEach() callback are function-scoped and unaffected.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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