Well, the post I responded to included a more or less textbook description of template based rendering. It's a response to a response to this:

> The bizarre practice of assigning session keys to visitors and somehow storing the page they're viewing in the server instead of in the URL is pretty common in Brazilian government, which is dominated by Java programmers.

Having dealt with such a service just today (King County Recorder's Office public records search) that behaves in this manner, I felt pretty familiar with what I was describing.

It is entirely possible I'd misapprehended the situation, but as it's an informal conversation on the internet about bad web development practices, I'm going going to dwell on it too much.