Stateless Requests

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Stateless requests skip the HELLO handshake. A client sends a Seal before HELLO using Location: <via>/anyone/stateless.

<via> is the via string (031) for the transport the client connected to (e.g. tcp+1.1.1.1:4777). The server does not validate this segment for stateless requests.

Rules

• Group is repo
• Location session segment is the literal string stateless
• Ring1 name is anyone
• Client signs with an ephemeral keypair
• Server resolves identity as anyone and applies anyone ACL rules
• Only 🖧GET, 🖧LIST, 🖧HEADERS are allowed; others return FORBIDDEN
• No session binding validation (repo-name and session-id are unchecked)
• TAI tolerance still applies
• Connection stays open after response
• Client may send 🖧HELLO afterward to upgrade to session mode

Stateless requests are replayable by design. They provide packet integrity via the Seal signature, not identity. Use only for public read-only data.

UDP

UDP uses stateless requests exclusively. See 032.