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jarek on Jan 20, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: DuckDuckGo Challenges Google on Privacy (With a Bi...

Surely whether or not the RFC's authors know how to spell a word has no bearing on how sensible it is to correct the spelling of "HTTP_REFERER"? I mean, if dools had said "HTTP referer" then you might have had a point, but "HTTP_REFERER" unambiguously refers to the name of the header field.

ezalor on Jan 20, 2011 [–]

No need to be pedant dude.

jarek on Jan 20, 2011 | [–]

At the risk of taking the joke too far, "pedant" is a noun and requires an article preceding it.

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