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Why HTTP header Referrer is misspelled as Referer?

2 pointsby funkasterabout 4 years ago

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funkasterabout 4 years ago
When looking at all HTTP headers, after so many years of probably doing the same, I realized that Referrer was misspelled. This wikipedia entry has some details on why, mostly attributable to the fact that ispell (?) did not recognize either word at the time.<p>Anyway, it&#x27;s a fun fact of computer history :)<p>Relevant RFC: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.ietf.org&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc1945#section-10.13" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tools.ietf.org&#x2F;html&#x2F;rfc1945#section-10.13</a><p>Edit: added source RFC.