> HTTP is a stateless protocol on top of a stateful socket connection. It wasn’t designed this way by accident. The complexity benefit of having stateless HTTP

> HTTP is a stateless protocol on top of a stateful socket connection. It wasn’t designed this way by accident. The complexity benefit of having stateless HTTP transactions is vastly offset by the statefulness of TCP, TLS states, HTTP "sessions", cookies, browser storage & so on. HTTP is hardly "designed" and plenty of its aspects were accidental.