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And sometimes that mistake propagates and leaves us 25 years later still using referer [0] [0] https://annaken.github.io/a-brief-history-of-the-referer-header/
by maccard 4y ago
And sometimes that mistake propagates and leaves us 25 years later still using referer [0]
[0] https://annaken.github.io/a-brief-history-of-the-referer-header/ https://annaken.github.io/a-brief-history-of-the-referer-hea...
- dmurray 4y agoThis one always seemed to me like a plausible alternative spelling (cf. traveler for traveller). Maybe the reviewers who let this through were speakers of British English who knew it was misspelt but conceded it without a fight, having already lost on color, gray, center...
- thaumasiotes 4y agoTraveler is stressed on the first syllable; referrer is not.