Ignore my earlier comment. I found the solution on the org.apache.http logging page. Your original answer was referring to httpclient-3.x logging, and the working code for recent versions comes from http-components logging java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger(“org.apache.http.wire”).setLevel(java.util.logging.Level.FINEST); java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger(“org.apache.http.headers”).setLevel(java.util.logging.Level.FINEST); System.setProperty(“org.apache.commons.logging.Log”, “org.apache.commons.logging.impl.SimpleLog”); System.setProperty(“org.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.showdatetime”, “true”); System.setProperty(“org.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.log.httpclient.wire”, “debug”); System.setProperty(“org.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.log.org.apache.http”, “debug”); System.setProperty(“org.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.log.org.apache.http.headers”, “debug”); and properties: adb shell setprop log.tag.org.apache.http VERBOSE adb shell setprop log.tag.org.apache.http.wire … Read more