azure front door does not support web sockets and signal/r falling back to long polling. for long polling to work, your host needs to support server affinity (session affinity in front door).
long pulling is a repeated series of ajax request from the client, and must go to the same server if signal/r is hosted in a farm. this is not as performant as websockets.
note: you should use azure signal/r to get around the front door websocket limitations.