Ok, how many of you have noticed this (probably a lot.)

The correct spelling is "Referrer." But PHP doesn't see it that way. The reason is probably because of this:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=referer

Now I don't blame them for using the commonly misspuleded word but they should at least be consistant. Look at this page in the manual. http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php

They use it both ways! Do a search on the site, there's referrer and referer all over the place. Is it unreasonable to ask them to fix this? Or at least be consistant. I admit my spelling isn't greate but this is killing me. I found the problem in dreamweaver with it's auto code popdowns. I started typing $HTTP_ and it gave me a popdown with "REFERER" in it, when I clicked on it, it actually put "REFERRER" on the page, which doesn't exist. phpinfo prefers "referer"

    I doubt PHP are gonna change that. Now i gather there is some kinda of explanation for actually doing that.

      Did you ever had the joy to work with Microsoft products?
      They never make spelling mistakes, they prefer ALL the rest.

      I am happy using REFERER... I would also be happy using REEFEEREER hehe

      Long live open source world 🙂🙂

        Hmm... Nope. Does anyone like Microsoft other than people who get money out of them..

        Although they have the software that can do it. They make who knows how much anymore.

          It looks like whenever they use "referer" it's technical, and whenever it's "referrer" it's in a normal sense. I don't know why they do that, though.

            I was refeRRing to altaergo....
            But lets not put all the blame to MS.. I like to make money too

            Its the stupid world that makes the problem my friends...
            MS was just clever enough to understand that first

            If it was not MS somebody else would be out there for sure!
            I hope AI will change things in the future... it will make the maintenance problems of linux affordable to world-wide-ignorant-word

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