diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 020c1a4e8a..ab3242f0b9 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Sun Nov  9 02:05:33 2014  Tanaka Akira  <akr@fsij.org>
+
+	* test/net/http/utils.rb: Don't connect to spawned server
+	  before actual test.
+
 Sun Nov  9 01:51:50 2014  Benoit Daloze  <eregontp@gmail.com>
 
 	* object.c (Module#const_defined?): [DOC] Revise the documentation.
diff --git a/test/net/http/utils.rb b/test/net/http/utils.rb
index c629da8808..7afef411ec 100644
--- a/test/net/http/utils.rb
+++ b/test/net/http/utils.rb
@@ -63,15 +63,6 @@ module TestNetHTTPUtils
     @server.mount('/', Servlet, config('chunked'))
     @server_thread = @server.start
     @config['port'] = @server[:Port]
-    n_try_max = 5
-    begin
-      TCPSocket.open(config('host'), config('port')).close
-    rescue Errno::ECONNREFUSED
-      sleep 0.2
-      n_try_max -= 1
-      raise 'cannot spawn server; give up' if n_try_max < 0
-      retry
-    end
   end
 
   $test_net_http = nil