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by dauphin 5625 days ago
*referrer
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jarek 5625 days ago
Heh, no. The header really is "HTTP_REFERER", and is somewhat notorious for the misspelling.
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dauphin 5625 days ago
Open an English dictionary (the Oxford one if you're serious), and come back. Note my fault if tbl didn't know how to speak English corectly backed then.
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jarek 5625 days ago
Surely whether or not the RFC's authors know how to spell a word has no bearing on how sensible it is to correct the spelling of "HTTP_REFERER"? I mean, if dools had said "HTTP referer" then you might have had a point, but "HTTP_REFERER" unambiguously refers to the name of the header field.
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ezalor 5625 days ago
No need to be pedant dude.
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jarek 5625 days ago
At the risk of taking the joke too far, "pedant" is a noun and requires an article preceding it.
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dools 5625 days ago
It's actually spelled HTTP_REFERER in the PHP $_SERVER superglobal :)

edit: oops, I see someone beat me to it!

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jarek 5625 days ago
It's not just PHP - the HTTP 1.0 specification in RFC 1945 spells it like that.
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