referer

Misspelling of referrer.

Noun

  1. Misspelling of referrer.
  2. Alternative form of referrer (“the referring URL”).
    • The Referer field must not be sent if the Request-URI was obtained from a source that does not have its own URI, such as input from the user keyboard. - 1996, T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, H. Frystyk, Hypertext Transfer...
    • If a referring URL was specified, for each valid referer, make sure that a valid referring URL was passed to FormMail - 2001, Jennifer Niederst Robbins, Web Design in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference, page 278:
    • The referer portion of a logfile line contains the full URL of the page or object visited before the current one. - 2007, Ben Fry, Visualizing Data, page 253:

Forms

referers

Derived

refback