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This package contained malicious code and was removed from the registry by the npm security team. A placeholder was published to ensure users are not affected in the future.
Please refer to www.npmjs.com/advisories?search=apache-httpclient for more information.
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The npm package apache-httpclient receives a total of 0 weekly downloads. As such, apache-httpclient popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that apache-httpclient demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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