Technical Glossary: R

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• Referrer
• Return Code
• RGB
• Robot

Referrer

An Internet Address (URL) of a web site linking to a web site or the name of the search engine used to direct users to a web site.

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Return Code

A specific code sent from the web server that hosts a web site to the requesting web browser. This code tells the browser if a request was successful or not and why.

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RGB

Red Green Blue. A common color format used by images. This format is especially popular on Windows systems.

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Robot

A robot is program that automatically travel the Internet (by following links on pages) for a specific purpose. The most common type of robot is a spider (or worm) that indexes and records every page it encounters.

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Last Updated: Thursday, March 25, 1999