diff --git a/docs/examples/getinmemory.c b/docs/examples/getinmemory.c
index c1b6e12d43..10ce8551f7 100644
--- a/docs/examples/getinmemory.c
+++ b/docs/examples/getinmemory.c
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
   /* we pass our 'chunk' struct to the callback function */
   curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, (void *)&chunk);
 
-  /* some servers don't like requests that are made withput a user-agent
+  /* some servers don't like requests that are made without a user-agent
      field, so we provide one */
   curl_easy_setopt(curl_handle, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "libcurl-agent/1.0");