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No, because it is stateful now that we have cookies.

• krapp 6y ago
  You're right, but cookies aren't really a part of HTTP, they're a browser hack that got popular. You could just as easily say that HTTP is stateless because of backend databases and sessions. It's true about the web, but not HTTP per se.
  • db48x 6y ago
    I disagree. They might have had a different name, but they would end up being essentially the same thing: a place to store a unique identifier (or other information), with an expiration date and some information about what server to send them to. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.