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They aren't passing on the query in the referrer string. Your browser is. This story is a non-story. Referrer is just doing what Referrer does.
by spekode 16y ago
They aren't passing on the query in the referrer string. Your browser is. This story is a non-story. Referrer is just doing what Referrer does.
- jacquesm 16y agoIt's a fine story, and it is fixable. And it probably should be fixed, if only because fixing it is less work than talking about it. And due to a terrible oversight the header is actually mis-spelled and it came out as 'Referer:'. Fixing this will make duckduckgo.com even better, which is awesome.
- random42 16y ago> And due to a terrible oversight the header is actually mis-spelled and it came out as 'Referer Well, Cant blame DDG for it though http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referrer#Origin_of_the_term_referer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referrer#Origin_of_the_ter...
- jacquesm 16y agoNo, definitely not, I just wanted to point that out. I knew about this for years, having stared at a bug for a whole day before I realized it was the header that was misspelled. It never even crossed my mind until I was away from the keyboard for a few hours.