(sic) from Phillip M. Hallam-Baker on 1995-03-10 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from January to March 1995)

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>> Has anyone else noticed that the HTTP header "Referer:" is spelled wrong?
>
>That's okay, neither one (referer or referrer) is understood by "spell"
>anyway.  I say we should just blame it on France.  ;-)

I also managed to mispell alt.games.mornington.cresent when I created it. I
think this one is down to Tim. I sent him a note with the suggestion but I don't 
think I gave a name for the field.

Oh well. We all make mistakes, as the Dalek said climbing off the dustbin.


	Phill.

Received on Friday, 10 March 1995 07:55:39 UTC