diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 0379e95d5f..c0f0ce134e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Sat Mar  3 10:09:21 2012  Aaron Patterson <aaron@tenderlovemaking.com>
+
+	* lib/xmlrpc/client.rb (initialize): net/http defaults to 1_2 in 1.8+,
+	  so we can safely remove the call to enable it.
+
 Sat Mar  3 08:42:25 2012  Aaron Patterson <aaron@tenderlovemaking.com>
 
 	* lib/xmlrpc/client.rb (new2): use URI for uri parsing.
diff --git a/lib/xmlrpc/client.rb b/lib/xmlrpc/client.rb
index e61d631b16..d4123211d8 100644
--- a/lib/xmlrpc/client.rb
+++ b/lib/xmlrpc/client.rb
@@ -325,7 +325,6 @@ module XMLRPC
       @proxy_port = @proxy_port.to_i if @proxy_port != nil
 
       # HTTP object for synchronous calls
-      Net::HTTP.version_1_2
       @http = Net::HTTP.new(@host, @port, @proxy_host, @proxy_port)
       @http.use_ssl = @use_ssl if @use_ssl
       @http.read_timeout = @timeout