Event source connection can not be kept alive on remote host

Question

The issue

I've got a Rest API in Spring-Boot where i'm listening to an event-source stream from html like so:

 eventSource = new EventSource("/api/events/receive", {
        xhrHeaders: {
            'Content-Type': 'text/event-stream',
            'Connection': 'keep-alive'
        }
    });
 eventSource.onmessage = function (evt) { ... };

The EventSource returns 503 after a while!

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Works perfectly on localhost but not on remote host!

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Things i've tried

• add keep-alive on the @RestController via HttpServletResponse Object

@GetMapping(path = "/api/events/receive", produces = MediaType.TEXT_EVENT_STREAM_VALUE)
        public Flux<Ambulance> receiveAmbulance(HttpServletResponse resp) {
            
            resp.addHeader("Connection", "keep-alive");
            

            return Flux.create(sink -> {
                ambulanceProcessor.register(sink::next);
            });
        }
        

• add to that template a keep-alive header via @Controller

@GetMapping("/dashboard")
    public String getResource(Model model, HttpServletResponse response) {
            response.addHeader("Connection", "keep-alive");
            return "view";
}

Related posted i've visited

1. How SSE Work
2. SSE Spring Examples

503 After a few seconds

Note: I've tried almost everything and nothing seems to work for me...

Answer 1

I manage to keep it alive by creating a new @Service with this @Bean

@Bean
    public void KeepAliveEvt()
    {
        ExecutorService sseMvcExecutor = Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor();
        sseMvcExecutor.execute(() -> {
            try {
                for (int i = 0; true; i++) {
                    Thread.sleep(120000);
                    ambulanceProcessor.process(new Event());
                    System.out.println("Kept Alive");
                    
                }
            } catch (Exception ex) {
              
            }
        });
    }

Basically I'm keeping it alive with a Dummy Event every 2 minutes