EDUCATION (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The HTTP protocol is a stateless one. This means that every HTTP request the server receives is independent and does not relate to requests that came prior to it. For example, imagine the following scenario: a request is made for the first ten user records, then another request is made for the next ten records.

Detailed explanation-2: -HTTP is called as a stateless protocol because each request is executed independently, without any knowledge of the requests that were executed before it, which means once the transaction ends the connection between the browser and the server is also lost.

Detailed explanation-3: -A Stateless Protocol doesn’t require a server to retain the information of a session or the status of every communicating partner in multiple requests. A few examples of Stateless Protocols are Domain Name System (DNS), User Datagram Protocol (UDP), Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), etc.

Detailed explanation-4: -HTTP is a stateless protocol. That is, the server does not hold any information on previous requests sent by the client. Client-side cookies were introduced by Netscape to maintain state, by storing client-specific information on the client’s machine and later retrieved to obtain the state information.