diff --git a/src/Curl/Curl.php b/src/Curl/Curl.php
index e702a27..6b18036 100644
--- a/src/Curl/Curl.php
+++ b/src/Curl/Curl.php
@@ -215,6 +215,11 @@ class Curl
         $this->setOpt(CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $user_agent);
     }
 
+    public function setReferer($referer)
+    {
+        $this->setReferrer($referer);
+    }
+
     public function setReferrer($referrer)
     {
         $this->setOpt(CURLOPT_REFERER, $referrer);
diff --git a/tests/PHPCurlClass/PHPCurlClassTest.php b/tests/PHPCurlClass/PHPCurlClassTest.php
index 4b4001e..5f4f351 100644
--- a/tests/PHPCurlClass/PHPCurlClassTest.php
+++ b/tests/PHPCurlClass/PHPCurlClassTest.php
@@ -352,6 +352,12 @@ class CurlTest extends PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
         $this->assertEquals('myreferrer', $test->server('server', 'GET', array(
             'key' => 'HTTP_REFERER',
         )));
+
+        $test = new Test();
+        $test->curl->setReferer('myreferer');
+        $this->assertEquals('myreferer', $test->server('server', 'GET', array(
+            'key' => 'HTTP_REFERER',
+        )));
     }
 
     public function testResponseBody()