diff --git a/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/bazel/repository/starlark/StarlarkBaseExternalContext.java b/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/bazel/repository/starlark/StarlarkBaseExternalContext.java
index e1c53456223812..4695acc84d1156 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/bazel/repository/starlark/StarlarkBaseExternalContext.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/bazel/repository/starlark/StarlarkBaseExternalContext.java
@@ -575,6 +575,13 @@ public StructImpl download(
             name = "stripPrefix",
             defaultValue = "''",
             named = true,
+            doc =
+                "Deprecated: You can drop this parameter in preference"
+		+ "\nto strip_prefix (introduced for the purpose of naming consistency)."),
+	@Param(
+            name = "strip_prefix",
+            defaultValue = "''",
+            named = true,
             doc =
                 "a directory prefix to strip from the extracted files."
                     + "\nMany archives contain a top-level directory that contains all files in the"
diff --git a/src/test/shell/bazel/external_integration_test.sh b/src/test/shell/bazel/external_integration_test.sh
index bc2847adee857b..3c73d4dd28d58e 100755
--- a/src/test/shell/bazel/external_integration_test.sh
+++ b/src/test/shell/bazel/external_integration_test.sh
@@ -1685,7 +1685,7 @@ def _rule_impl(ctx):
   result = ctx.download_and_extract(
     url = [],
     type = "zip",
-    stripPrefix="ext",
+    strip_prefix="ext",
     sha256 = ctx.attr.sha256,
     allow_fail = True,
   )