diff --git a/Lib/httplib.py b/Lib/httplib.py
index 6e72e2c37e9..ccd42349e48 100644
--- a/Lib/httplib.py
+++ b/Lib/httplib.py
@@ -1322,71 +1322,3 @@ class LineAndFileWrapper:
             return L + self._file.readlines()
         else:
             return L + self._file.readlines(size)
-
-def test():
-    """Test this module.
-
-    A hodge podge of tests collected here, because they have too many
-    external dependencies for the regular test suite.
-    """
-
-    import sys
-    import getopt
-    opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], 'd')
-    dl = 0
-    for o, a in opts:
-        if o == '-d': dl = dl + 1
-    host = 'www.python.org'
-    selector = '/'
-    if args[0:]: host = args[0]
-    if args[1:]: selector = args[1]
-    h = HTTP()
-    h.set_debuglevel(dl)
-    h.connect(host)
-    h.putrequest('GET', selector)
-    h.endheaders()
-    status, reason, headers = h.getreply()
-    print 'status =', status
-    print 'reason =', reason
-    print "read", len(h.getfile().read())
-    print
-    if headers:
-        for header in headers.headers: print header.strip()
-    print
-
-    # minimal test that code to extract host from url works
-    class HTTP11(HTTP):
-        _http_vsn = 11
-        _http_vsn_str = 'HTTP/1.1'
-
-    h = HTTP11('www.python.org')
-    h.putrequest('GET', 'http://www.python.org/~jeremy/')
-    h.endheaders()
-    h.getreply()
-    h.close()
-
-    try:
-        import ssl
-    except ImportError:
-        pass
-    else:
-
-        for host, selector in (('sourceforge.net', '/projects/python'),
-                               ):
-            print "https://%s%s" % (host, selector)
-            hs = HTTPS()
-            hs.set_debuglevel(dl)
-            hs.connect(host)
-            hs.putrequest('GET', selector)
-            hs.endheaders()
-            status, reason, headers = hs.getreply()
-            print 'status =', status
-            print 'reason =', reason
-            print "read", len(hs.getfile().read())
-            print
-            if headers:
-                for header in headers.headers: print header.strip()
-            print
-
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-    test()