diff --git a/test/test_utils.py b/test/test_utils.py
index 032d3656ae..86b110a7d8 100644
--- a/test/test_utils.py
+++ b/test/test_utils.py
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@
     read_batch_urls,
     sanitize_filename,
     sanitize_path,
-    sanitize_url_path_consecutive_slashes,
     prepend_extension,
     replace_extension,
     shell_quote,
@@ -176,26 +175,6 @@ def test_sanitize_path(self):
         self.assertEqual(sanitize_path('./abc'), 'abc')
         self.assertEqual(sanitize_path('./../abc'), '..\\abc')
 
-    def test_sanitize_url_path_consecutive_slashes(self):
-        self.assertEqual(
-            sanitize_url_path_consecutive_slashes('http://hostname/foo//bar/filename.html'),
-            'http://hostname/foo/bar/filename.html')
-        self.assertEqual(
-            sanitize_url_path_consecutive_slashes('http://hostname//foo/bar/filename.html'),
-            'http://hostname/foo/bar/filename.html')
-        self.assertEqual(
-            sanitize_url_path_consecutive_slashes('http://hostname//'),
-            'http://hostname/')
-        self.assertEqual(
-            sanitize_url_path_consecutive_slashes('http://hostname/foo/bar/filename.html'),
-            'http://hostname/foo/bar/filename.html')
-        self.assertEqual(
-            sanitize_url_path_consecutive_slashes('http://hostname/'),
-            'http://hostname/')
-        self.assertEqual(
-            sanitize_url_path_consecutive_slashes('http://hostname/abc//'),
-            'http://hostname/abc/')
-
     def test_prepend_extension(self):
         self.assertEqual(prepend_extension('abc.ext', 'temp'), 'abc.temp.ext')
         self.assertEqual(prepend_extension('abc.ext', 'temp', 'ext'), 'abc.temp.ext')
diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index de09b53b2d..d73efcf25c 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -327,13 +327,6 @@ def sanitize_path(s):
     return os.path.join(*sanitized_path)
 
 
-def sanitize_url_path_consecutive_slashes(url):
-    """Collapses consecutive slashes in URLs' path"""
-    parsed_url = list(compat_urlparse.urlparse(url))
-    parsed_url[2] = re.sub(r'/{2,}', '/', parsed_url[2])
-    return compat_urlparse.urlunparse(parsed_url)
-
-
 def orderedSet(iterable):
     """ Remove all duplicates from the input iterable """
     res = []