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by merb 2657 days ago
The whole protocol has state, because that's the only way to multiplex multiple data streams over a single connection.

i.e.: https://http2.github.io/http2-spec/#StreamStates of course the "user layer" is stateless, but the whole connection handling is a state machine (which actually http/0.9-1.1 wasn't)