diff --git a/pandacommon/pandalogger/PandaLogger.py b/pandacommon/pandalogger/PandaLogger.py
index 17edf1d..d9b19bf 100755
--- a/pandacommon/pandalogger/PandaLogger.py
+++ b/pandacommon/pandalogger/PandaLogger.py
@@ -62,8 +62,8 @@ def run(self):
             h.putrequest(self.method, url)
             if self.method == "POST":
                 h.putheader("Content-length", str(len(self.data)))
-                h.putheader ("Content-type", "application/json; charset=UTF-8")
-                h.endheaders()
+            h.endheaders()
+            if self.method == "POST":
                 h.send(self.data)
             response = h.getresponse()    # can't do anything with the result
             #for s in self.getData(response, 1024):
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ def mapLogRecord(self, record):
         """
         Default implementation of mapping the log record into a dict
         that is sent as the CGI data. Overwrite in your class.
-        Contributed by Franz Glasner.
+        Contributed by Franz  Glasner.
         """
         newrec = record.__dict__
         for p in self.params:
@@ -143,10 +143,9 @@ def emit(self, record):
         # The new logger needs to be json encoded and use POST method
         
         if self.encoding == JSON:
-
             arr=[{
                   "headers":{"timestamp" : int(time.time())*1000, "host" : "%s:%s"%(self.url, self.port)},
-                  "body": "{0}".format(json.dumps(self.mapLogRecord(record)))
+                  "body": "%s"%self.mapLogRecord(record)
                  }]
             data = json.dumps(arr)
         else:
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index fb81c7d..096b320 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ def run (self):
                     # remove build/*/dump for bdist
                     patt = re.sub('build/[^/]+/dumb','',patt)
                     # remove /var/tmp/*-buildroot for bdist_rpm
-                    patt = re.sub('/var/tmp/.*-buildroot','',patt)
+                    patt = re.sub('/var/tmp/.*-buildroot','',patt)                    
                     # replace
                     filedata = filedata.replace('@@%s@@' % item, patt)
                 # write to dest
@@ -99,7 +99,6 @@ def run (self):
                'pandacommon.liveconfigparser',
                'pandacommon.pandalogger',
                'pandacommon.pandautils',
-               'pandacommon.test',
               ],
     data_files=[ 
                 ('/etc/panda',