Referer vs Recipient - What's the difference?
referer | recipient |
(Internet) the referring page; the URL that referred to a given page.
* 1996 , T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, H. Frystyk, Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0
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One who receives, such as one who receives money or goods.
(medicine) An individual receiving donor organs or tissues.
(chemistry) The portion of an alembic or other still in which the distilled liquid is collected.
As a verb referer
is to refer.As a noun recipient is
container, vessel, recipient.referer
English
Noun
(wikipedia referer) (en noun)- The Referer field must not be sent if the Request-URI was obtained from a source that does not have its own URI, such as input from the user keyboard.
Usage notes
Referer is the field name used in the HTTP protocol (RFC1945] and [http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-14.36 RFC2616). Originally a misspelling, it has gained currency from its use there and in related documents.