diff --git a/lib/webrick/httpresponse.rb b/lib/webrick/httpresponse.rb
index f61d53230a..121f5e6464 100644
--- a/lib/webrick/httpresponse.rb
+++ b/lib/webrick/httpresponse.rb
@@ -349,12 +349,6 @@ module WEBrick
       end
     end
 
-    def to_s # :nodoc:
-      ret = ""
-      send_response(ret)
-      ret
-    end
-
     ##
     # Redirects to +url+ with a WEBrick::HTTPStatus::Redirect +status+.
     #