misc: fix typos

Bug: https://curl.se/mail/lib-2021-01/0063.html
Closes #6434

7 files changed, 12 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/docs/HYPER.md b/docs/HYPER.md
index 2562cb763..112d040ba 100644
--- a/docs/HYPER.md
+++ b/docs/HYPER.md
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ Build curl to use hyper's C API:
 Hyper is a low level HTTP transport library. curl itself provides all HTTP
 headers and Hyper provides all received headers back to curl.
 
-Therefore, msost of the "header logic" in curl as in responding to and acting
+Therefore, most of the "header logic" in curl as in responding to and acting
 on specific input and output headers are done the same way in curl code.
 
 The API in Hyper delivers received HTTP headers as (cleaned up) name=value
diff --git a/lib/curl_addrinfo.c b/lib/curl_addrinfo.c
index 872395b05..0cd48fb5c 100644
--- a/lib/curl_addrinfo.c
+++ b/lib/curl_addrinfo.c
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ Curl_he2ai(const struct hostent *he, int port)
 #endif
       ss_size = sizeof(struct sockaddr_in);
 
-    /* allocate memory to told the struct, the address and the name */
+    /* allocate memory to hold the struct, the address and the name */
     ai = calloc(1, sizeof(struct Curl_addrinfo) + ss_size + namelen);
     if(!ai) {
       result = CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY;
diff --git a/lib/hsts.c b/lib/hsts.c
index 6f771284f..336dffa1b 100644
--- a/lib/hsts.c
+++ b/lib/hsts.c
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ CURLcode Curl_hsts_save(struct Curl_easy *data, struct hsts *h,
     /* no cache activated */
     return CURLE_OK;
 
-  /* if not new name is given, use the one we stored from the load */
+  /* if no new name is given, use the one we stored from the load */
   if(!file && h->filename)
     file = h->filename;
 
@@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ static CURLcode hsts_pull(struct Curl_easy *data, struct hsts *h)
  * format is documented here:
  * https://github.com/curl/curl/wiki/HSTS
  *
- * This function only returns error on major problems that prevents hsts
+ * This function only returns error on major problems that prevent hsts
  * handling to work completely. It will ignore individual syntactical errors
  * etc.
  */
diff --git a/lib/http.c b/lib/http.c
index 8bee326f4..1794f43a2 100644
--- a/lib/http.c
+++ b/lib/http.c
@@ -1258,7 +1258,9 @@ CURLcode Curl_buffer_send(struct dynbuf *in,
   }
   else {
 #ifdef CURLDEBUG
-    /* Allow debug builds override this logic to force short initial sends */
+    /* Allow debug builds to override this logic to force short initial
+       sends
+     */
     char *p = getenv("CURL_SMALLREQSEND");
     if(p) {
       size_t altsize = (size_t)strtoul(p, NULL, 10);
@@ -2914,7 +2916,7 @@ CURLcode Curl_http(struct connectdata *conn, bool *done)
   const char *p_accept;      /* Accept: string */
 
   /* Always consider the DO phase done after this function call, even if there
-     may be parts of the request that is not yet sent, since we can deal with
+     may be parts of the request that are not yet sent, since we can deal with
      the rest of the request in the PERFORM phase. */
   *done = TRUE;
 
@@ -3019,7 +3021,7 @@ CURLcode Curl_http(struct connectdata *conn, bool *done)
     /* When we are to insert a TE: header in the request, we must also insert
        TE in a Connection: header, so we need to merge the custom provided
        Connection: header and prevent the original to get sent. Note that if
-       the user has inserted his/hers own TE: header we don't do this magic
+       the user has inserted his/her own TE: header we don't do this magic
        but then assume that the user will handle it all! */
     char *cptr = Curl_checkheaders(conn, "Connection");
 #define TE_HEADER "TE: gzip\r\n"
diff --git a/lib/krb5.c b/lib/krb5.c
index 66394f4f3..269d026e4 100644
--- a/lib/krb5.c
+++ b/lib/krb5.c
@@ -776,7 +776,7 @@ static int sec_set_protection_level(struct connectdata *conn)
     }
   }
 
-  /* Now try to negiociate the protection level. */
+  /* Now try to negotiate the protection level. */
   code = ftp_send_command(conn, "PROT %c", level_to_char(level));
 
   if(code < 0)
diff --git a/lib/vtls/openssl.c b/lib/vtls/openssl.c
index dfb5ed54d..5e0eef8ad 100644
--- a/lib/vtls/openssl.c
+++ b/lib/vtls/openssl.c
@@ -1871,7 +1871,7 @@ static CURLcode verifystatus(struct connectdata *conn,
   /* Compute the certificate's ID */
   cert = SSL_get_peer_certificate(backend->handle);
   if(!cert) {
-    failf(data, "Error getting peer certficate");
+    failf(data, "Error getting peer certificate");
     result = CURLE_SSL_INVALIDCERTSTATUS;
     goto end;
   }
diff --git a/tests/runtests.pl b/tests/runtests.pl
index 0e0e26c3c..7d59de84b 100755
--- a/tests/runtests.pl
+++ b/tests/runtests.pl
@@ -2252,7 +2252,7 @@ sub runsshserver {
 }
 
 #######################################################################
-# Start the socks server
+# Start the MQTT server
 #
 sub runmqttserver {
     my ($id, $verbose, $ipv6) = @_;