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The npm package @smithy/protocol-http receives a total of 38,544,784 weekly downloads. As such, @smithy/protocol-http popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @smithy/protocol-http demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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