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From: =?UTF-8?q?Sebasti=C3=A1n=20Ram=C3=ADrez?= <tiangolo@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2026 09:34:16 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?=F0=9F=93=9D=20Clarify=20that=20the=20keep=20al?=
 =?UTF-8?q?ive=20coment=20is=20`ping`?=
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diff --git a/docs/en/docs/tutorial/server-sent-events.md b/docs/en/docs/tutorial/server-sent-events.md
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@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ This is useful for protocols like <a href="https://modelcontextprotocol.io" clas
 
 FastAPI implements some SSE best practices out of the box.
 
-* Send a **"keep alive" comment** every 15 seconds when there hasn't been any message, to prevent some proxies from closing the connection, as suggested in the <a href="https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/server-sent-events.html#authoring-notes" class="external-link" target="_blank">HTML specification: Server-Sent Events</a>.
+* Send a **"keep alive" `ping` comment** every 15 seconds when there hasn't been any message, to prevent some proxies from closing the connection, as suggested in the <a href="https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/server-sent-events.html#authoring-notes" class="external-link" target="_blank">HTML specification: Server-Sent Events</a>.
 * Set the `Cache-Control: no-cache` header to **prevent caching** of the stream.
 * Set a special header `X-Accel-Buffering: no` to **prevent buffering** in some proxies like Nginx.