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Comment by jsheard

2 days ago

HTTP had the right idea, just get the spelling completely wrong so everyone gets equally pissed off.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Re...

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sebmellen  2 days ago

Hilarious. I feel like referer looks correct now, having seen it so often.

  • jsheard  2 days ago

    Except now there's also the "Referrer-Policy" header, which is spelled correctly. I wonder if the spec committee debated calling it Referer-Policy for consistency.

    • k1t  2 days ago

      Personally, I would have, since it refers to the Referer header it seems like it should follow the same spelling.

      It would be like CSS having a "color" attribute, but then doing something like "default-colour".

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