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random42 on May 19, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: DuckDuckGo Searches Are Not Anonymous

> And due to a terrible oversight the header is actually mis-spelled and it came out as 'Referer

Well, Cant blame DDG for it though

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referrer#Origin_of_the_ter...

jacquesm on May 20, 2010 [–]

No, definitely not, I just wanted to point that out.

I knew about this for years, having stared at a bug for a whole day before I realized it was the header that was misspelled. It never even crossed my mind until I was away from the keyboard for a few hours.

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