IEDriverServer : Start up messages - Some Pointers

With WebDriver + Internet Explorer, the following start up messages get appeared into Console :

Started InternetExplorerDriver server (32-bit)

2.43.0.0

Listening on port 47206

Oct 13, 2014 3:12:21 PM org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector tryExecute

INFO: I/O exception (org.apache.http.NoHttpResponseException) caught when processing request: The target server failed to respond

Oct 13, 2014 3:12:21 PM org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector tryExecute

INFO: Retrying request

Many of us always feel awkward about this and think to be some potential error with IEDriverServer. Here is some of pointers provided by Jim Evans on why we are wrong : 

http://jimevansmusic.blogspot.in/2012/12/seeing-info-messages-in-log-does-not.html

Want to block these messages anyway. Here is some code snippet which will do the trick.

Disable log messages

java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger("org.apache.http.impl.client").setLevel(java.util.logging.Level.WARNING);

This is to disable log message from getting displayed on the console. Updated code will look like the following :

// Disable log messages

java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger("org.apache.http.impl.client").setLevel(java.util.logging.Level.WARNING);

System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver","D:\\Selenium Info\\IEDriverServer.exe");

DesiredCapabilities dc = DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer();

dc.setCapability("silent", true);

WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver(dc);

Note: dc.setCapability("silent", true); only blocks IEDriver starting message.

Please find the full list of capabilities here : https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/InternetExplorerDriver#Important_System_Properties

Hope this helps!