Statelessness in RESTful applications poses challenges and opportunities, influencing how we manage fundamental security aspects such as authentication and authorization. This blog aims to delve into this topic, explore its impact, and offer insights into the best practices for handling stateless REST applications.
Understanding Statelessness in REST
REST, or REpresentational State Transfer, is an architectural style that defines a set of constraints for creating web services. One of its core principles is statelessness, which means that each request from a client to a server must contain all the information needed to understand and process the request. This model stands in contrast to stateful approaches, where the server stores user session data between requests.
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