I never read these as different. Document.Location uses "protocol" for example.

SGTM. To make matters slightly more confusing, the wikipedia page for URI notes:

"While most URI schemes were originally designed to be used with a particular protocol, and often have the same name (such as the http scheme, which is generally used for interacting with web resources using HTTP), they should not be referred to as protocols. Some URI schemes are not associated with any specific protocol (e.g. file) and many others do not use the name of a protocol as their prefix (e.g. news)."

This has at least caused confusion in the linked crrev, so possibly we should at least add documentation to KURL::protocol. I think mass re-name is probably overkill (esp. w/ location.protocol).

My understanding is that they (scheme and protocol) are almost always the same, but not necessarily (as in the news: vs nttp example).  Given URLs are fairly sacred and we want to be as accurate as possible, it seems like we should be using the proper language when we can.

But I'm not an owner in any of the correlating areas, so if I'm in the minority, I'll be quiet. :)

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