+1.

Explains why referer has always felt wrong :)

Hen

On 11/13/05, Anil Gangolli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> OK.  One of my pet peeves is that we spell referrer incorrectly (as
> referer) all over the place.
>
> Sometime back in about 1995, one of the young Netscape or NCSA folks
> wrote "Referer" when they defined the HTTP header and started using it;
> things like that propagate and have a way of sticking.   However, I see
> no reason to maintain the misspelling in anything but the code actually
> dealing with the header.  So I'd like to correct the spelling in all of
> the resource prop values (display strings) where it appears.
>
> Objections?
>
> --a.
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