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by manigandham 2653 days ago
HTTP2 is stateless. It follows the same semantics as HTTP to be a generic stateless protocol.

TCP has stateful connections, but both HTTP versions are being sent over TCP anyway so in that sense the transport was always stateful.

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> HTTP2 is stateless. It follows the same semantics as HTTP to be a generic stateless protocol.

It is not currently. HTTP/2 header compression is stateful.

HTTP/2 is a protocol that appear stateless to the end user.