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

stateless \state"less\, a.
   without state or pomp.
   1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

stateless
     adj : without nationality or citizenship; "stateless persons"
           syn: homeless
see also:
homeless 

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

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 urls 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.
     
     
see also:
server world-wide web url ftp 

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