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		emmelaich on Dec 20, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What RESTful actually means Is that true? The token may have the time encoded in it. When the token is presented to the server it responds with a 401. The client can then use the WWW-Authenticate response to know what to do next. None of this requires state on the server.

kuschku on Dec 20, 2015 [–]

But it requires a state on the client still.

I need to store a state somewhere at least. That’s not really stateless.

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