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noisem4ker on Sept 9, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: REST APIs must be hypertext-driven (2008)

>What do you mean stateless?

The server doesn't keep track of the state of client sessions. Each request is handled individually. This is an advantage as memory can be saved and requests originating from any client session can be handled by any server instance.

motogpjimbo on Sept 10, 2020 [–]

That is also possible in a stateful system, simply by storing user sessions in an independent session server.

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