referer

plural referers

1. misspellingMisspelling of referrer.
2. InternetalternativeAlternative form of referrer (“the referring URL”).

   The referer information can also be accessed as document.referrer within JavaScript.

   2007, Tiara Yule, The Illustrated Dictionary of Internet, page 74

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   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 Protocol -- HTTP/1.0

   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