Comment 3 for bug 401050

It is clearer if you file separate bugs for separate issues. Anyway, regarding the -q option not working. What output are you seeing? I think there may be some debugging info left over from development. You should be able to comment out the line containing
  conn.set_debuglevel
in schemes/http.py without ill effects.

Regarding the second problem. The patterns are matched against the full URL (see the manual page), therefore no URL starts with a / (most start with http://, https:// or something similar). Perhaps what you are looking for is something like this:
  --yank='^https?://[a-z0-9A-Z]*/$'

Hope this helps.