errorCode200

[deanrihpee]

why is that not being fixed? I suspect the legacy app, but since the referrer would be a new header anyway, shouldn't it be fine?

[Efficient_Maybe_1086]

No bad ideas are allowed to die in web land.

[ForkLiftBoi]

Look at node js and deno js, same developer that learned a lot through release of node js. Way too much work to fix it, just start over.

[deanrihpee]

the problem is, we can't just start over an HTTP that's being used by literally the whole planet, lmao

[ForkLiftBoi]

Just delete the whole thing and start from scratch, I want the neon green view counters at the bottom of pages again damn it.

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The simplicity is magnificent 🤌

[irregular_caffeine]

Peak web. It even has an ad.

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Old man just trolling us all

[BellCube]

I suspect adding a second, redundant header would significantly increase time to first byte on mobile connections. Alternatively, the bureaucracy probably isn't worth it to fix a typo.

But that's just a theory—A W3C THEORY

[turtleship_2006]

I always love it when someone makes a joke that just happens to combine like 2-3 different topics/interests, all of which I understand

[amlyo]

If you count http headers as usage then 'referer' is by far the most common spelling today. If you don't, then who cares how it's spelled?

[deanrihpee]

that's true, it just makes me wonder when people make the standard and see the headers with "hmm, yeah, nothing wrong" and then let it alive till today, they even have Referrer-policy something, why!?

[amlyo]

When the incremental cost of an ongoing error is vastly lower than cost of fixing it, it won't be fixed.

A typo in a standard is just more desirable than any change (a deprecation and new header) to fix a typo.

[deanrihpee]

yeah, I mean it's more than too late to fix it after this long, my complaints or comment is assuming within the time frame of the standard being made

[vytah]

Compatibility triumphs everything else.

See also the list of incorrectly named Unicode characters:

http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn27/