Techniques to manage state information for a web service

An apparatus, comprising:

• a processor circuit;
• and
• an application program for execution by the processor circuit to present, in a web control, a network resource provided by a network service and provide a set of operations to modify a state of the network resource, the application program comprising:
• a state manager component arranged to record state information for the network resource provided by the network service as state changes occur to the network resource during a first communication session over a stateless protocol, and store a resource identifier and associated state information for the network resource in a state database, the state information for use in automatically reproducing a state of the network resource during a second communication session.

At least one computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed, cause a system to:

• present, in a web control being displayed on a display device, a network resource during a first communication session;
• receive a control directive to modify a network resource during the first communication session;
• send a first request to modify a state of the network resource to a network service wherein the network service does not store any state information representing the modified state;
• receive a response with the network resource in the modified state from the network service;
• store state information representing the modified state of the network resource;
• and
• terminate the first communication session.