diff --git a/Lib/logging/handlers.py b/Lib/logging/handlers.py
index 19fb959fb26..5930f49c3ab 100644
--- a/Lib/logging/handlers.py
+++ b/Lib/logging/handlers.py
@@ -1024,9 +1024,7 @@ def emit(self, record):
                 h.putheader("Content-type",
                             "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
                 h.putheader("Content-length", str(len(data)))
-            h.endheaders()
-            if self.method == "POST":
-                h.send(data)
+            h.endheaders(data if self.method == "POST" else None)
             h.getreply()    #can't do anything with the result
         except (KeyboardInterrupt, SystemExit):
             raise