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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
+<!DOCTYPE properties SYSTEM "http://java.sun.com/dtd/properties.dtd">
+<configuration debug="false">
+	<logger name="it.geosolutions.geoserver.rest" level="INFO" />
+	<logger name="httpclient" level="WARN" />
+	<logger name="org.apache.commons.httpclient" level="WARN" />
+
+	<appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
+        <encoder>
+            <pattern>%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} %-5level [%thread] %logger: %message%n</pattern>
+        </encoder>
+	</appender>
+
+	<root level="debug">
+		<appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />
+	</root>
+</configuration>