diff --git a/WORKSPACE b/WORKSPACE
index 3ed1bee114..4b289bba04 100644
--- a/WORKSPACE
+++ b/WORKSPACE
@@ -9,10 +9,10 @@ local_repository(
 
 http_archive(
     name = "com_google_googletest",
-    sha256 = "ea54c9845568cb31c03f2eddc7a40f7f83912d04ab977ff50ec33278119548dd",
+    sha256 = "833bfaf9f8f508a4ef4a35e25131112ed55bf9ff5c073e272397ff38eb4d90ec",
     strip_prefix = "googletest-4c9a3bb62bf3ba1f1010bf96f9c8ed767b363774",
     urls = [
-        "https://github.com/google/googletest/archive/4c9a3bb62bf3ba1f1010bf96f9c8ed767b363774.tar.gz",
+        "https://github.com/google/googletest/archive/4c9a3bb62bf3ba1f1010bf96f9c8ed767b363774.zip",
     ],
 )
 
diff --git a/protobuf_deps.bzl b/protobuf_deps.bzl
index 90e1412cd9..3c130bcb3b 100644
--- a/protobuf_deps.bzl
+++ b/protobuf_deps.bzl
@@ -58,12 +58,12 @@ def protobuf_deps():
         )
 
     if not native.existing_rule("jsoncpp"):
-        http_archive(
+        _github_archive(
             name = "jsoncpp",
+            repo = "https://github.com/open-source-parsers/jsoncpp",
+            commit = "9059f5cad030ba11d37818847443a53918c327b1",  # 1.9.4
+            sha256 = "c0c583c7b53a53bcd1f7385f15439dcdf0314d550362379e2db9919a918d1996",
             build_file = Label("//:third_party/jsoncpp.BUILD"),
-            sha256 = "e34a628a8142643b976c7233ef381457efad79468c67cb1ae0b83a33d7493999",
-            strip_prefix = "jsoncpp-1.9.4",
-            urls = ["https://github.com/open-source-parsers/jsoncpp/archive/refs/tags/1.9.4.tar.gz"],
         )
 
     if not native.existing_rule("utf8_range"):
@@ -99,11 +99,11 @@ def protobuf_deps():
         )
 
     if not native.existing_rule("rules_python"):
-        http_archive(
+        _github_archive(
             name = "rules_python",
-            sha256 = "a868059c8c6dd6ad45a205cca04084c652cfe1852e6df2d5aca036f6e5438380",
-            strip_prefix = "rules_python-0.14.0",
-            url = "https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_python/archive/refs/tags/0.14.0.tar.gz",
+            repo = "https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_python",
+            commit = "912a5051f51581784fd64094f6bdabf93f6d698f",  # 0.14.0
+            sha256 = "a3e4b4ade7c4a52e757b16a16e94d0b2640333062180cba577d81fac087a501d",
         )
 
     if not native.existing_rule("rules_ruby"):