diff --git a/api/server/httputils/httputils.go b/api/server/httputils/httputils.go
index 386695ca32..531cbde2b6 100644
--- a/api/server/httputils/httputils.go
+++ b/api/server/httputils/httputils.go
@@ -86,6 +86,15 @@ func ReadJSON(r *http.Request, out interface{}) error {
 	return nil
 }
 
+// WriteJSON writes the value v to the http response stream as json with standard json encoding.
+func WriteJSON(w http.ResponseWriter, code int, v interface{}) error {
+	w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
+	w.WriteHeader(code)
+	enc := json.NewEncoder(w)
+	enc.SetEscapeHTML(false)
+	return enc.Encode(v)
+}
+
 // ParseForm ensures the request form is parsed even with invalid content types.
 // If we don't do this, POST method without Content-type (even with empty body) will fail.
 func ParseForm(r *http.Request) error {
diff --git a/api/server/httputils/httputils_write_json.go b/api/server/httputils/httputils_write_json.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 148dd038b3..0000000000
--- a/api/server/httputils/httputils_write_json.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-package httputils // import "github.com/docker/docker/api/server/httputils"
-
-import (
-	"encoding/json"
-	"net/http"
-)
-
-// WriteJSON writes the value v to the http response stream as json with standard json encoding.
-func WriteJSON(w http.ResponseWriter, code int, v interface{}) error {
-	w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
-	w.WriteHeader(code)
-	enc := json.NewEncoder(w)
-	enc.SetEscapeHTML(false)
-	return enc.Encode(v)
-}