[ProgSoc] Thought for the day

sanguinev at progsoc.org sanguinev at progsoc.org
Sat Nov 7 13:42:22 EST 2009


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John Elliot wrote:
> sanguinev at progsoc.org wrote:
>> John Elliot wrote:
>>> How can you see something like this [1] and believe anyone who says HTTP 
>>> is stateless?
>>>
>>> [1] http://lists.progsoc.org/progsoc/2009-November/001228.html
>> HTTP didn't modify its behaviour based on its own previous state
> 
> It's not relevant what caused the change in state. It could very well 
> have been HTTP that lead to the change in state. The point is that there 
> is shared and mutable application state and the protocol can't hide that 
> fact.
> 
> The term 'stateless' as applied to HTTP is neither correct nor useful.

The goal of HTTP is not to "hide" the state of information communicated
over it, rather to deliver the information as requested regardless of
previous state(s).

- - SanguineV
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