diff --git a/actionpack/CHANGELOG b/actionpack/CHANGELOG
index 54b5ca40c6..37783e3752 100644
--- a/actionpack/CHANGELOG
+++ b/actionpack/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 *SVN*
 
-* Deprecation: remove deprecated instance variables and redirect methods.  [Jeremy Kemper]
+* Deprecation: remove deprecated instance variables, request methods, and redirect methods.  [Jeremy Kemper]
 
 * Consistent public/protected/private visibility for chained methods.  #7813 [Dan Manges]
 
diff --git a/actionpack/lib/action_controller.rb b/actionpack/lib/action_controller.rb
index 58aff0922a..cc5ba2b2b2 100755
--- a/actionpack/lib/action_controller.rb
+++ b/actionpack/lib/action_controller.rb
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ $:.unshift "#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/action_controller/vendor/html-scanner"
 
 require 'action_controller/base'
 require 'action_controller/request'
-require 'action_controller/deprecated_request_methods'
 require 'action_controller/rescue'
 require 'action_controller/benchmarking'
 require 'action_controller/flash'
diff --git a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/deprecated_request_methods.rb b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/deprecated_request_methods.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 93663bdda4..0000000000
--- a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/deprecated_request_methods.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-module ActionController
-  class AbstractRequest
-    # Determine whether the body of a HTTP call is URL-encoded (default)
-    # or matches one of the registered param_parsers. 
-    #
-    # For backward compatibility, the post format is extracted from the
-    # X-Post-Data-Format HTTP header if present.
-    def post_format
-      case content_type
-      when Mime::XML
-        :xml
-      when Mime::YAML
-        :yaml
-      else
-        :url_encoded
-      end
-    end
-
-    # Is this a POST request formatted as XML or YAML?
-    def formatted_post?
-      post? && (post_format == :yaml || post_format == :xml)
-    end
-
-    # Is this a POST request formatted as XML?
-    def xml_post?
-      post? && post_format == :xml
-    end
-
-    # Is this a POST request formatted as YAML?
-    def yaml_post?
-      post? && post_format == :yaml
-    end
-  end
-end
diff --git a/actionpack/test/controller/webservice_test.rb b/actionpack/test/controller/webservice_test.rb
index e60e3a84cb..2b50088bb4 100644
--- a/actionpack/test/controller/webservice_test.rb
+++ b/actionpack/test/controller/webservice_test.rb
@@ -98,15 +98,6 @@ class WebServiceTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
     assert_nothing_raised { process('POST', 'application/xml', "") }
     assert_equal "", @controller.response.body
   end
-  
-  def test_deprecated_request_methods
-    process('POST', 'application/x-yaml')
-    assert_equal Mime::YAML, @controller.request.content_type
-    assert_equal true, @controller.request.post?
-    assert_equal :yaml, @controller.request.post_format
-    assert_equal true, @controller.request.yaml_post?
-    assert_equal false, @controller.request.xml_post?    
-  end
 
   def test_dasherized_keys_as_xml
     ActionController::Base.param_parsers[Mime::XML] = :xml_simple