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feat: use SSE in query.live to avoid weird middleman quirks with normal streamed responses - #15957

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closes #15956
closes #15921
closes (maybe) #15790?

Some middlemen (antivirus, nginx) do weird buffer-y things with streamed responses, in spite of the no-store cache directives we use. SSE is more universal and seems to bypass some of these behaviors. TBD on whether this works for the nginx issue.

Due to weird GitHub quirks I couldn't push to @IAkumaI's branch. This still contains his commits.

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brilliant fix

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# Releases
## @sveltejs/kit@2.63.1

### Patch Changes


- fix: use SSE for `query.live`
([#15957](#15957))


- fix: use forward slashes in the generated `env.d.ts` import path on
Windows ([#15977](#15977))


- fix: allow `$app/environment` with a warning when
`explicitEnvironmentVariables` is enabled
([#15980](#15980))


- fix: avoid importing Vite while validating explicit environment
variables ([#15953](#15953))


- docs: adjust the release version of explicit env vars
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- fix: ensure `version` is defined when importing from `$app/env` with
explicit environment variables
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Don't think this helps with nginx.
I used SSE with it and also had the buffering issue.

Just checked the codebase, it has this in the endpoint:

return new Response(stream, {
    headers: {
        'Content-Type': 'text/event-stream',
        'Cache-Control': 'no-cache',
        'Connection': 'keep-alive',
        'X-Accel-Buffering': 'no', // Disable buffering for nginx
    },
});

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# Releases
## @sveltejs/kit@3.0.0-next.2

### Patch Changes


- fix: use SSE for `query.live`
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- fix: use forward slashes in the generated `env.d.ts` import path on
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- fix: avoid importing Vite while validating explicit environment
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- docs: adjust the release version of explicit env vars
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- fix: ensure `version` is defined when importing from `$app/env` with
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`read_stream` accumulates decoded text in one string, re-runs `indexOf`
over the whole buffer after every transport chunk and re-slices the
buffer for every emitted record. When one frame spans many chunks, every
prefix is rescanned and total work grows quadratically with frame size.
This parser sits behind streamed page data and remote functions (NDJSON)
and `query.live` (SSE), so the cost lands on the client for large
payloads.

With this change only newly decoded text is searched. Already searched
text accumulates in an array and is joined once per completed frame. The
last `delimiter.length - 1` characters stay in the unsearched tail so a
delimiter split across chunk boundaries still matches.

One 2 MiB frame, Node 22 x64, median of repeated runs:

| transport chunks | before | after | speedup |
| ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| 2048 × 1 KiB | 1720.7 ms | 4.0 ms | 429× |
| 512 × 4 KiB | 431.0 ms | 3.2 ms | 135× |
| 128 × 16 KiB | 111.5 ms | 3.1 ms | 36× |
| 32 × 64 KiB | 31.3 ms | 3.1 ms | 10× |

Many small records, the common path, get slightly faster (2 MiB of 64
byte records in 16 KiB chunks, ~21 ms to ~15 ms) because the old code
re-sliced the buffer once per record.

Output is unchanged. The rewrite matched the previous implementation
across 4000 randomized cases covering both delimiters, delimiters split
between chunks, multibyte UTF-8 split between chunks and trailing
unterminated records. The new unit tests also pass against the previous
implementation.

`read_stream` was extracted in #15957 and last changed in #16423. No
open PR modifies `stream.js`, `ndjson.js` or `sse.js`.

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query.live stucks in pending state when wrong proxies at client side

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