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The proliferation of REST and statelessness in Web Application and Web API design, state management often becomes a matter of misunderstandings and conflict in development teams. Programmers of back-end systems may be used to assume that session-related state is preserved server side and may be referred to as needed by the application code. However, stateful implementations may suffer from performance and scalability limitations, making thus the stateless approach a viable alternative, especially when high-load Web-based systems are considered. How to pass data between requests in state-less / session-less Web applications The problem here is that there are cases in state-less Web applications where data from an interaction may be required in subsequent interactions to be processed by the server, even though they are not stored in the server in some form. In this case, you will have to let the Web client provide these data as context (or state) of subsequent interactions. ...