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		nayuki 14 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes? It's "referer" in the HTTP standard, but "referrer" when correctly spelled in English. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer

account42 13 days ago [–]

In this case not only the naming was a mistake but the existence of the header itself.

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