@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ public class ProtocolHandshake {
 
         if (result.isPresent()) {
           Result toReturn = result.get();
-          LOG.info(String.format("Detected dialect: %s", toReturn.dialect));
+          LOG.finest(String.format("Detected dialect: %s", toReturn.dialect));
           return toReturn;
         }
       }
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package org.openqa.selenium.remote;

import static com.google.common.net.HttpHeaders.CONTENT_LENGTH;
import static com.google.common.net.HttpHeaders.CONTENT_TYPE;
import static com.google.common.net.MediaType.JSON_UTF_8;
import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
import static org.openqa.selenium.remote.CapabilityType.PROXY;
import static org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.Contents.string;

import com.google.common.base.Preconditions;
import com.google.common.io.CountingOutputStream;
import com.google.common.io.FileBackedOutputStream;

import org.openqa.selenium.Capabilities;
import org.openqa.selenium.ImmutableCapabilities;
import org.openqa.selenium.Proxy;
import org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException;
import org.openqa.selenium.json.Json;
import org.openqa.selenium.json.JsonException;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.HttpClient;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.HttpMethod;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.HttpRequest;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.HttpResponse;

import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.io.Writer;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Objects;
import java.util.Optional;
import java.util.function.Function;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
import java.util.stream.Stream;

public class ProtocolHandshake {

  private final static Logger LOG = Logger.getLogger(ProtocolHandshake.class.getName());

  public Result createSession(HttpClient client, Command command)
      throws IOException {
    Capabilities desired = (Capabilities) command.getParameters().get("desiredCapabilities");
    desired = desired == null ? new ImmutableCapabilities() : desired;

    int threshold = (int) Math.min(Runtime.getRuntime().freeMemory() / 10, Integer.MAX_VALUE);
    FileBackedOutputStream os = new FileBackedOutputStream(threshold);
    try (
        CountingOutputStream counter = new CountingOutputStream(os);
        Writer writer = new OutputStreamWriter(counter, UTF_8);
        NewSessionPayload payload = NewSessionPayload.create(desired)) {

      payload.writeTo(writer);

      try (InputStream rawIn = os.asByteSource().openBufferedStream();
           BufferedInputStream contentStream = new BufferedInputStream(rawIn)) {
        Optional<Result> result = createSession(client, contentStream, counter.getCount());

        if (result.isPresent()) {
          Result toReturn = result.get();
          LOG.info(String.format("Detected dialect: %s", toReturn.dialect));
          return toReturn;
        }
      }
    } finally {
      os.reset();
    }

    throw new SessionNotCreatedException(
        String.format(
            "Unable to create new remote session. " +
            "desired capabilities = %s",
            desired));
  }

  private Optional<Result> createSession(HttpClient client, InputStream newSessionBlob, long size)
      throws IOException {
    // Create the http request and send it
    HttpRequest request = new HttpRequest(HttpMethod.POST, "/session");

    HttpResponse response;
    long start = System.currentTimeMillis();

    request.setHeader(CONTENT_LENGTH, String.valueOf(size));
    request.setHeader(CONTENT_TYPE, JSON_UTF_8.toString());
    request.setContent(() -> newSessionBlob);

    response = client.execute(request);
    long time = System.currentTimeMillis() - start;

    // Ignore the content type. It may not have been set. Strictly speaking we're not following the
    // W3C spec properly. Oh well.
    Map<?, ?> blob;
    try {
      blob = new Json().toType(string(response), Map.class);
    } catch (JsonException e) {
      throw new WebDriverException(
          "Unable to parse remote response: " + string(response), e);
    }

    InitialHandshakeResponse initialResponse = new InitialHandshakeResponse(
        time,
        response.getStatus(),
        blob);

    return Stream.of(
        new W3CHandshakeResponse().getResponseFunction(),
        new JsonWireProtocolResponse().getResponseFunction())
        .map(func -> func.apply(initialResponse))
        .filter(Objects::nonNull)
        .findFirst();
  }

  public static class Result {

    private static Function<Object, Proxy> massageProxy = obj -> {
      if (obj instanceof Proxy) {
        return (Proxy) obj;
      }

      if (!(obj instanceof Map)) {
        return null;
      }

      Map<?, ?> rawMap = (Map<?, ?>) obj;
      for (Object key : rawMap.keySet()) {
        if (!(key instanceof String)) {
          return null;
        }
      }

      // This cast is now safe.
      //noinspection unchecked
      return new Proxy((Map<String, ?>) obj);
    };

    private final Dialect dialect;
    private final Map<String, ?> capabilities;
    private final SessionId sessionId;

    Result(Dialect dialect, String sessionId, Map<String, ?> capabilities) {
      this.dialect = dialect;
      this.sessionId = new SessionId(Preconditions.checkNotNull(sessionId));
      this.capabilities = capabilities;

      if (capabilities.containsKey(PROXY)) {
        //noinspection unchecked
        ((Map<String, Object>) capabilities)
            .put(PROXY, massageProxy.apply(capabilities.get(PROXY)));
      }
    }

    public Dialect getDialect() {
      return dialect;
    }

    public Response createResponse() {
      Response response = new Response(sessionId);
      response.setValue(capabilities);
      response.setStatus(ErrorCodes.SUCCESS);
      response.setState(ErrorCodes.SUCCESS_STRING);
      return response;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
      return String.format("%s: %s", dialect, capabilities);
    }
  }
}

This is an incorrect change. The dialect spoken is an important part of the handshake and should be communicated to users.