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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stateless \State"less\, a.
     Without state or pomp.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  stateless
       adj : without nationality or citizenship; "stateless persons"
             [syn: {homeless}]

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  stateless
       
          A stateless {server} is one which treats each request as an
          independent transaction, unrelated to any previous request.
          This simplifies the server design because it does not need to
          allocate storage to deal with conversations in progress or
          worry about freeing it if a client dies in mid-transaction.  A
          disadvantage is that it may be necessary to include more
          information in each request and this extra information will
          need to be interpreted by the server each time.
       
          An example of a stateless server is a {World-Wide Web} server.
          These take in requests ({URL}s) which completely specify the
          required document and do not require any context or memory of
          previous requests.
       
          Contrast this with a traditional {FTP} server which conducts
          an interactive session with the user.  A request to the server
          for a file can assume that the user has been authenticated and
          that the current directory and transfer mode have been set.
       
       

















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