If you're going to write a mile-long article about the URL, at least get the details correct. The leftmost part of a URL is not the "protocol". It is called th

If you're going to write a mile-long article about the URL, at least get the details correct. The leftmost part of a URL is not the "protocol". It is called the "scheme". The scheme doesn't tell you "the protocol which should be used to access it", it tells you how to interpret the remainder of the URL.