diff --git a/OpenRA.FileFormats/HttpUtil.cs b/OpenRA.FileFormats/HttpUtil.cs
deleted file mode 100644
index d819922868..0000000000
--- a/OpenRA.FileFormats/HttpUtil.cs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,97 +0,0 @@
-#region Copyright & License Information
-/*
- * Copyright 2007-2011 The OpenRA Developers (see AUTHORS)
- * This file is part of OpenRA, which is free software. It is made
- * available to you under the terms of the GNU General Public License
- * as published by the Free Software Foundation. For more information,
- * see COPYING.
- */
-#endregion
-
-using System;
-using System.IO;
-using System.Net;
-using System.Net.Sockets;
-using System.Text;
-
-namespace OpenRA.FileFormats
-{
-	public static class HttpUtil
-	{
-		public static byte[] DownloadData(string url, Action<int, int> f, int chunkSize)
-		{
-			var uri = new Uri(url);
-			var ip = Dns.GetHostEntry(uri.DnsSafeHost).AddressList[0];
-
-			using (var s = new TcpClient())
-			{
-				s.Connect(new IPEndPoint(ip, uri.Port));
-				var ns = s.GetStream();
-				var sw = new StreamWriter(ns);
-
-				sw.Write("GET {0} HTTP/1.0\r\nHost:{1}\r\n\r\n", uri.PathAndQuery, uri.Host);
-				sw.Flush();
-
-				var br = new BinaryReader(ns);
-				var contentLength = 0;
-				var offset = 0;
-				for (; ; )
-				{
-					var result = br.ReadLine();
-					var kv = result.Split(new string[] { ": " }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
-
-					if (result == "")
-					{
-						/* data follows the blank line */
-
-						if (contentLength > 0)
-						{
-							if (f != null)
-								f(offset, contentLength);
-
-							var data = new byte[contentLength];
-							while (offset < contentLength)
-							{
-								var thisChunk = Math.Min(contentLength - offset, chunkSize);
-								br.Read(data, offset, thisChunk);
-								offset += thisChunk;
-								if (f != null)
-									f(offset, contentLength);
-							}
-							s.Close();
-							return data;
-						}
-						else
-						{
-							s.Close();
-							return new byte[] { };
-						}
-					}
-					else if (kv[0] == "Content-Length")
-						contentLength = int.Parse(kv[1]);
-				}
-			}
-		}
-
-		public static byte[] DownloadData(string url, Action<int, int> f)
-		{
-			return DownloadData(url, f, 4096);
-		}
-
-		public static byte[] DownloadData(string url)
-		{
-			return DownloadData(url, null);
-		}
-
-		static string ReadLine(this BinaryReader br)
-		{
-			var sb = new StringBuilder();
-			char c;
-			while ((c = br.ReadChar()) != '\n')
-				if (c != '\r' && c != '\n')
-					sb.Append(c);
-
-			return sb.ToString();
-		}
-	}
-}
diff --git a/OpenRA.FileFormats/OpenRA.FileFormats.csproj b/OpenRA.FileFormats/OpenRA.FileFormats.csproj
index f2671a4169..f97116332b 100644
--- a/OpenRA.FileFormats/OpenRA.FileFormats.csproj
+++ b/OpenRA.FileFormats/OpenRA.FileFormats.csproj
@@ -85,7 +85,6 @@
     <Compile Include="Graphics\ShpWriter.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Graphics\Vertex.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Graphics\VqaReader.cs" />
-    <Compile Include="HttpUtil.cs" />
     <Compile Include="InstallUtils.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Manifest.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Map\PlayerReference.cs" />