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2.14.1 Servers and their state
Servers manage a resource, such as a database or a printer
Attempt to limit problems of distributed access by making server
stateless
, such that each request is independent of other requests.
Servers can crash in between servicing clients
Client requests cannot interfere with each other (assuming concurrency control in server
But we can't always design stateless servers...
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Ian Wakeman 2005-02-22