A method and apparatus for transferring state information between a server computer system and a client computer system. In one embodiment of the method, an http client requests a file, such as an HTML document, on an http server, and the http server transmits the file to the http client. In addition,...http://www.google.com.au/patents/USRE42892?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent USRE42892 - Method and apparatus for maintaining state information on an HTTP client system in relation to server domain and path attributes