Onion sites are (typically) accessed over HTTP, so the fact that I didn't think HTTP was flawed demonstrates that there's some misinterpretation here. I'd sugg

Onion sites are (typically) accessed over HTTP, so the fact that I didn't think HTTP was flawed demonstrates that there's some misinterpretation here. I'd suggest that you're the one being overly pedantic. "Protocol" doesn't necessarily have to refer to something explicitly labeled as a "protocol".