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I understand where you're going, but this is not a continuation in the formal sense, and it isn't even usefully similar.

If the client stores the state on behalf of the server, the server will potentially be working with a modified dataset on the next request, and we're right back where we started with limit and offset.

You can cook up a scheme to make it work for a restricted range of requests, but the compromises are severe.

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