This code is almost as old as the web itself. The debug loglevel stuff was in the original check-in in 1994, by Guido himself: http://svn.python.org/view/python

This code is almost as old as the web itself. The debug loglevel stuff was in the original check-in in 1994, by Guido himself: http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Lib/httplib.py?revision=3849&view=markup http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Lib/httplib.py?revis... A simple find-replace would be enough to switch it over to python's built-in logging module.