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bread/http
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Bread HTTP library

v1.6.6(12y ago)03001CC-BY-3.0PHPPHP >=5.4

Since Jul 24Pushed 12y ago1 watchersCompare

[ Source](https://github.com/breadphp/http)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/bread/http)[ Docs](https://github.com/breadphp/http)[ RSS](/packages/bread-http/feed)WikiDiscussions master Synced 3w ago

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###  Health Score

30

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LowBetter than 62% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity11

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity67

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~17 days

Recently: every ~8 days

Total

17

Last Release

4445d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/851745?v=4)[Giovanni Lovato](/maintainers/heruan)[@heruan](https://github.com/heruan)

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Top Contributors

[![tomasell](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3263675?v=4)](https://github.com/tomasell "tomasell (9 commits)")

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Tags

httpbreadnetworking

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