On 20/03/2010, at 19:28, Taher Shihadeh wrote: > Great work Stefan :-) > > Just to clarify: "Referrer" is the correct word in English, and it is > misspelled as "Referer" in the the HTTP header AFAICT. Is that right?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referrer ------ Origin of the term referer The misspelling referer originated in the original proposal by computer scientist Phillip Hallam-Baker to incorporate the field into the HTTP specification.[1] The misspelling was set in stone by the time of its incorporation into the standards document RFC 1945; document co-authorRoy Fielding has remarked that neither "referrer" nor the misspelling "referer" were recognized by the standard Unix spell checker of the period.[2]"Referer" has since become a widely used spelling in 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. ------ -- Octality http://www.octality.com/ _______________________________________________ Cherokee mailing list [email protected] http://lists.octality.com/listinfo/cherokee
