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Pingback vs Refback - What's the difference?

pingback | refback | coordinate terms |

Pingback is a coordinate term of refback.


In internet|lang=en terms the difference between pingback and refback

is that pingback is (internet) a message automatically sent to a blog when one of the blogger's entries is referenced by another blogger while refback is (internet) the use of the optional html referer header to obtain information about webpages or proxy servers generating traffic for a webpage.

As nouns the difference between pingback and refback

is that pingback is (internet) a message automatically sent to a blog when one of the blogger's entries is referenced by another blogger while refback is (internet) the use of the optional html referer header to obtain information about webpages or proxy servers generating traffic for a webpage.

pingback

English

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia pingback)
  • (Internet) A message automatically sent to a blog when one of the blogger's entries is referenced by another blogger.

    • refback

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Internet) The use of the optional HTML referer header to obtain information about webpages or proxy servers generating traffic for a webpage.

    • Hypernyms

    * linkback

    Coordinate terms

    * pingback * trackback

    See also

    * (Refback) * (HTTP referrer)