referer
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referer
(World-Wide Web)A misspelling of "referrer" which somehow
made it into the
HTTP standard. A given
web page's
referer (sic) is the
URL of whatever web page contains the
link that the user followed to the current page. Most
browsers pass this information as part of a request.
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