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by trunnell 6000 days ago
Check out this patent. It appears to be for storing web page state in the web page itself and transmitting that state using HTTP POST. I'm not even kidding.

http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=wIEoAAAAEBAJ&dq=5...

It's especially interesting to read the "referenced by" list on that page. "Incorporating state information into a URL" ... "Method for transmitting images over a network" ... "System for tracking the purchase of a product over the internet."

Seriously, what are we going to do about this?