Describe the advantages and disadvantages of the original stateless design of the web.

What will be an ideal response?


The original stateless design of the web allowed early web servers to quickly process requests for web pages, since they did not need to remember any unique requirements for different clients. Similarly, web browsers did not need to know any special information to load a particular web page from a server. Although this stateless design was efficient, it was also limiting; because a web server could not remember individual user information, the web browser was forced to treat every visit to a web page as an entirely new session. This was true regardless of whether the browser had just opened a different web page on the same server. This design hampered interactivity and limited the amount of personalization a web site could provide.

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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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What will be an ideal response?

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A. Compressing B. Aliasing C. Formatting D. Effecting

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