&gt; Stateless does not mean that servers and clients do not have state, it simply means that they do not need to keep track of each other’s state.<p>For this reason, I&#x27;ve always thought that the term &quot;stateless&quot; is confusing. Maybe &quot;client state independent&quot; (the response that the server sends back is independent of the client&#x27;s state)? I don&#x27;t love that term, any better ideas?