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HTTP header field
In HTTP, "Referer" is an optional HTTP header field that identifies the address of the web page from which the resource has been requested. By checking the referrer, the server providing the new web page can see where the request originated. Wikipedia →
🧠Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: HTTP refererA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: Carlo ScarpaThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Online navigation to journal articles: How are journal articles retrieved by researchers and students at an academic institution; a quantitative examination of HTTP referer [sic] dataCited 3 times
- Go sideways: HTTPA closely related topic
- Go sideways: List of HTTP header fieldsA closely related topic
đź“– Definitions
No dictionary entry for this exact phrase.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
đź“š Books worth reading
Carlo ScarpaScarpa, Carlo, Roberto Gottardi · 1979
The gay gamesCaroline Symons · 2010- 📕Putin's OlympicsRobert W. Orttung, Sufian N. Zhemukhov · 2017
- 📕Transformation and Crisis in Central and Eastern EuropeBruno Dallago, Steven Rosefielde · 2016
- 📕North African PoliticsYahia H. Zoubir, Gregory White · 2015
GettysburgKent Gramm, Chris Heisey · 1994
Origins of the Warfare StateCarl Boggs · 2016
Results of the early modern OlympicsBill Mallon, Ture Widlund · 1997
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