diff --git a/httpclient/pom.xml b/httpclient/pom.xml
index f98735d876..8047d56cd4 100644
--- a/httpclient/pom.xml
+++ b/httpclient/pom.xml
@@ -30,7 +30,32 @@
 			<artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
 			<version>${httpclient.version}</version>
 		</dependency>
+        
+        <!-- logging -->
 
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+            <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
+            <version>${org.slf4j.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
+            <artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
+            <version>${logback.version}</version>
+            <!-- <scope>runtime</scope> -->
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jcl-over-slf4j</artifactId>
+            <version>${org.slf4j.version}</version>
+            <!-- <scope>runtime</scope> --> <!-- some spring dependencies need to compile against jcl -->
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency> <!-- needed to bridge to slf4j for projects that use the log4j APIs directly -->
+            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+            <artifactId>log4j-over-slf4j</artifactId>
+            <version>${org.slf4j.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        
 		<!-- test scoped -->
 
 		<dependency>
diff --git a/httpclient/src/main/resources/logback.xml b/httpclient/src/main/resources/logback.xml
index 1146dade63..aa1e9cd522 100644
--- a/httpclient/src/main/resources/logback.xml
+++ b/httpclient/src/main/resources/logback.xml
@@ -1,20 +1,17 @@
 <configuration>
 
-	<appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
-		<encoder>
-			<pattern>web - %date [%thread] %-5level %logger{36} - %message%n
-			</pattern>
-		</encoder>
-	</appender>
+    <appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
+        <encoder>
+            <pattern>web - %date [%thread] %-5level %logger{36} - %message%n
+            </pattern>
+        </encoder>
+    </appender>
 
-	<logger name="org.springframework" level="WARN" />
-	<logger name="org.springframework.transaction" level="WARN" />
+    <logger name="org.apache.http" level="DEBUG" />
+    <logger name="org.apache.http.wire" level="INFO" />
 
-	<!-- in order to debug some marshalling issues, this needs to be TRACE -->
-	<logger name="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc" level="WARN" />
-
-	<root level="INFO">
-		<appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />
-	</root>
+    <root level="INFO">
+        <appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />
+    </root>
 
 </configuration>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/httpclient/src/test/java/org/baeldung/httpclient/HttpClientLiveTest.java b/httpclient/src/test/java/org/baeldung/httpclient/HttpClientLiveTest.java
index cebc3a8b26..1088bf3c4a 100644
--- a/httpclient/src/test/java/org/baeldung/httpclient/HttpClientLiveTest.java
+++ b/httpclient/src/test/java/org/baeldung/httpclient/HttpClientLiveTest.java
@@ -22,7 +22,10 @@ import org.apache.http.entity.ContentType;
 import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
 import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
 import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClientBuilder;
+import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
 import org.apache.http.impl.conn.BasicHttpClientConnectionManager;
+import org.apache.http.params.CoreProtocolPNames;
+import org.apache.http.params.HttpProtocolParams;
 import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
 import org.junit.After;
 import org.junit.Before;
@@ -129,16 +132,30 @@ public class HttpClientLiveTest {
 
     // tests - headers
 
+    @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
+    @Test
+    public final void givenDeprecatedApi_whenClientUsesCustomUserAgent_thenCorrect() throws ClientProtocolException, IOException {
+        final DefaultHttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
+        client.getParams().setParameter(CoreProtocolPNames.USER_AGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 Firefox/26.0");
+        HttpProtocolParams.setUserAgent(client.getParams(), "Mozilla/5.0 Firefox/26.0");
+
+        final HttpGet request = new HttpGet(SAMPLE_URL);
+        response = client.execute(request);
+    }
+
     @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
     @Test
     public final void givenDeprecatedApi_whenRequestHasCustomUserAgent_thenCorrect() throws ClientProtocolException, IOException {
-        instance = new DefaultHttpClient();
+        final DefaultHttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
         final HttpGet request = new HttpGet(SAMPLE_URL);
         request.setHeader(HttpHeaders.USER_AGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 Firefox/26.0");
+        response = client.execute(request);
+    }
 
-        response = instance.execute(request);
-
-        System.out.println(response);
+    @Test
+    public final void whenRequestHasCustomUserAgent_thenCorrect() throws ClientProtocolException, IOException {
+        instance = HttpClients.custom().setUserAgent("Mozilla/5.0 Firefox/26.0").build();
+        response = instance.execute(new HttpGet(SAMPLE_URL));
     }
 
 }