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Lately I have been reading a lot of material about the web and I always see someone mentioning that HTTP is a stateless protocol (stateless Protocol).
Follows a passage taken from RFC 2616 (my emphasis)
The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level Protocol for Distributed, Collaborative, Hypermedia information systems. It is a Generic, stateless, Protocol which can be used for Many tasks Beyond its use for Hypertext, such as name Servers and Distributed Object management systems, through Extension of its request methods, error codes and headers [47].
What makes HTTP a stateless protocol?
Related: How the HTTP protocol processes requests?
– Jéf Bueno