diff --git a/Lib/urllib.py b/Lib/urllib.py
index c96dd64b978..9400757db6a 100644
--- a/Lib/urllib.py
+++ b/Lib/urllib.py
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ class URLopener:
                     user_passwd, realhost = splituser(realhost)
                     if user_passwd:
                         selector = "%s://%s%s" % (urltype, realhost, rest)
-                print "proxy via https:", host, selector
+                #print "proxy via https:", host, selector
             if not host: raise IOError, ('https error', 'no host given')
             if user_passwd:
                 import base64