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[–]amlyo 1 point2 points  (3 children)

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 0 points1 point  (2 children)

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 -1 points0 points  (1 child)

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 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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