Is HTTPS Stateful or Stateless?

Question

I want a bit of clarity on whether HTTPS is stateful or stateless? This is with regards to a RESTful API I built. We were initially using HTTP. Since HTTP essentially works

Answer 1

The S in HTTPS is concerned with the transport, not the protocol. The semantics of the HTTP protocol remain the same for HTTPS. As the article about HTTPS on Wikipedia states,

Strictly speaking, HTTPS is not a separate protocol, but refers to use of ordinary HTTP over an encrypted SSL/TLS connection.

And the HTTP protocol is stateless by design, not because it is used most frequently over TCP/IP (nothing stops you to use HTTP over UDP for example).