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		aaronpk on Dec 19, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Welcome to Mosaic Communications Corporation (1994... hah! I was just talking about this with someone who saw the spelling "referer" in my source code and thought it was wrong! That's fantastic!

jacques_chester on Dec 19, 2011 [–]

I looked it up while working on my honours thesis -- "Referer" was red-circled by one reviewer and it was necessary to try and track down how it came to be spelled that way.

I got as far as the original RFC, but today I learnt who was responsible.

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