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BoingBoing Gadgets 'Referer' hiding in effect

I saw this the other day on a BoingBoing gadgets post from within Google Reader. Perhaps an over-zealous .htaccess over at BBG?

Interesting spelling nitpick: the original HTTP 1.0 spec (now in RFC1945) misspelled referrer as ‘referer’ and now it has stuck as a proper misspelling for many things HTTP.

So, note to self: when searching through natural language text, be fuzzy about spelling – it’s not so static changing over time and through repeated use in varied contexts. It sucks to miss a good result just because of a common misspelling.

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