Glossary
Every term the courses use, defined in one line and then in a paragraph. Written to be read out of order.
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A small value the browser attaches to every request.
How a stateless protocol manages to remember you. The browser stores it and sends it automatically with each request to that site. Marking one HttpOnly prevents JavaScript from reading it, which stops an injected script stealing a session.
The request-and-response protocol of the web.
The rules by which a client asks and a server answers. A request is a method, a path, headers, and maybe a body; a response swaps the method for a status code. Stateless by default.
See also Status code, Stateless, Endpoint
Each request starts from nothing.
The server remembers nothing about you between requests by default. Memory has to be added deliberately, which is exactly what cookies and sessions are for.
See also HTTP, Session, Serverless