On 01/29/2009 03:03 PM, Adrian Pohl wrote:
> p.s.: Isn't "referrer" correctly formed in analogy to "referred" and "referring"? (I must say, it feels weird to correct a native speaker.) However, the wikpedia-site you referenced tries to make pretty clear that "referer" is the misspelling.
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RFC 2616 and its predecessor RFC 2068 both explicitly point out that the
name of the Referer header is misspelled. At this point, far too much
code looks for a "Referer" header ever to allow for a correction to
"Referrer". It's unclear who is to blame for the original misspelling.
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Thomas Dowling
tdowling_at_ohiolink.edu
Received on Fri Jan 30 2009 - 13:24:09 EST