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publicdebates
29 days ago
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1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?
Human history is
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of cases where silly mistakes became precedent. HTTP "referal" is just another example.
I wonder if there's a wikipedia article listing these...
nayuki
29 days ago
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It's "referer" in the HTTP standard, but "referrer" when correctly spelled in English.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer
account42
28 days ago
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In this case not only the naming was a mistake but the existence of the header itself.
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I wonder if there's a wikipedia article listing these...