Fun protocol fact: the HTTP header which contains the referring url is called "referer" because the developer spelled "referrer" wrong and nobody noticed, so it made it into the official standards and now it's ossified.

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I never noticed this 😆

You're part of the problem!

Your* 🙃

lets just update the dictionary and pretend nothing happened

i saw a note about this in some http spec documentation the other day. there's a bunch of other funny things in the protocol that you can find.

one of the most troublesome that has only just recently started to get fixed is the Forwarded headers now are finally part of the spec. which actually means that you now have to write more code to handle the X-Forwarded-* as well as the Forwarded-* headers to parse out the client origin IP address

What’s the extra r for? 🤭

Dude !

Most commonly misspelled word in the word if you count software as people.

Nobody wants to ossify monkey jpegs into the Bitcoin blockchain forever. Fix the bugs that allow this shit in.

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Well that’s funny 😄

Fun Javascript wtf.

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