diff --git a/bundled-libs/HTTP/Request2.php b/bundled-libs/HTTP/Request2.php
index b835822e..dc49725e 100644
--- a/bundled-libs/HTTP/Request2.php
+++ b/bundled-libs/HTTP/Request2.php
@@ -930,11 +930,6 @@ class HTTP_Request2 implements SplSubject
         if (empty($this->adapter)) {
             $this->setAdapter($this->getConfig('adapter'));
         }
-        // magic_quotes_runtime may break file uploads and chunked response
-        // processing; see bug #4543. Don't use ini_get() here; see bug #16440.
-        if ($magicQuotes = get_magic_quotes_runtime()) {
-            set_magic_quotes_runtime(false);
-        }
         // force using single byte encoding if mbstring extension overloads
         // strlen() and substr(); see bug #1781, bug #10605
         if (extension_loaded('mbstring') && (2 & ini_get('mbstring.func_overload'))) {
@@ -947,9 +942,6 @@ class HTTP_Request2 implements SplSubject
         } catch (Exception $e) {
         }
         // cleanup in either case (poor man's "finally" clause)
-        if ($magicQuotes) {
-            set_magic_quotes_runtime(true);
-        }
         if (!empty($oldEncoding)) {
             mb_internal_encoding($oldEncoding);
         }