Forms info: Advanced

Statelessness

Apart from changing the database of forms and answers, the system is stateless. Practically put, this means that giving the same URI always gives you the same results - at least conceptually. Even more practically put, this means one can:

• Bookmark pages for e.g. checking the results every now and then.
• Give people page URIs as pointers, e.g. advertise a questionnaire by URI in an e-mail.
• Do something funny by re-issuing the same request when editing forms, e.g. scramble question numbers by clicking Reload when you have just deleted a question.

The future versions of the system might or might not be stateless. It is the intention, however, to retain at least stable form URIs.