title: Logs are filling up with httpclient.wire.content dumps. How can I turn it off?
body: <p>My catalina logs are filling up with gobs of statements like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>/logs/catalina.out:2010-05-05 02:57:19,611 [Thread-19] DEBUG httpclient.wire.content - &gt;&gt; "[0x4]
  [0xc][0xd9][0xf4][0xa2]MA[0xed][0xc2][0x93][0x1b][0x15][0xfe],[0xe]h[0xb0][0x1f][0xff][0xd6][0xfb]
  [0x8f]O[0xd4][0xc4]0[0xab][0x80][0xe8][0xe4][0xf2][\r]I&amp;[0xaa][0xd2]BQ[0xdb](zq[0xcd]ac[0xa8]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>on and on forever.</p>
  
  <p>I searched every config file in both tomcat and apache for the statements that purportedly turn this on as described here:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://hc.apache.org/httpclient-3.x/logging.html" rel="noreferrer">http://hc.apache.org/httpclient-3.x/logging.html</a></p>
  
  <p>And I don't see where this logging has been enabled. No other .war I deployed does this. The log4j configuration block in the app isn't doing it.</p>
  
  <p>I also tried to turn it off with statements like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>org.apache.commons.httpclient.wire=SEVERE
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>or </p>
  
  <pre><code>org.apache.commons.httpclient.wire.content=SEVERE
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>or</p>
  
  <pre><code>httpclient.wire.content=SEVERE
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>in my tomcat/conf/logging.properties file, and that didn't stop it</p>
  
  <p>I'm using an S3 library for grails that may be the source for these. However when I run this application on my development machine (in both develop and deploy configs), I'm not seeing it.</p>
  
  <p>And a related question: When would I want to use these "wire logs?"</p>