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- noun Common misspelling of
referrer . - noun Internet the
referring page; the URL that referred to a given page.
Etymologies
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Examples
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This morning, I noticed an incoming referer from the German edition of the same magazine: Wie Blogger den Tsunami-Opfern Halfen, with my photograph.
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They are normally used for setting the security of a directory, but in this case redirected visitors if their referer was a search engine.
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They are normally used for setting the security of a directory, but in this case redirected visitors if their referer was a search engine.
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The apps were using a common Web standard, known as a "referer," which passes on the address of the last page viewed when a user clicks on a link.
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Eckersley said the "referer" problem isn't new, nor is it necessarily limited to Facebook.
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Called a "referer," these pages help sites know how a user got to their page.
Facebook games privacy breach: Farmville, Texas HoldEm, other games release user data
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Eckersley said the "referer" problem isn't new, nor is it necessarily limited to Facebook.
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Eckersley said the "referer" problem isn't new, nor is it necessarily limited to Facebook.
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Eckersley said the "referer" problem isn't new, nor is it necessarily limited to Facebook.
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Eckersley said the "referer" problem isn't new, nor is it necessarily limited to Facebook.
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zeke commented on the word referer
The misspelling referer originated in the original proposal by computer scientist Phillip Hallam-Baker to incorporate the field into the HTTP specification. The misspelling was set in stone by the time of its incorporation into the standards document Request for Comments (RFC) 1945; document co-author Roy Fielding has remarked that neither "referrer" nor the misspelling "referer" were recognized by the standard Unix spell checker of the period. "Referer" has since become a widely used spelling in the industry when discussing HTTP referrers; usage of the misspelling is not universal, though, as the correct spelling of "referrer" is used in some web specifications such as the Document Object Model.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referrer
August 2, 2011