diff --git a/components/net/http_loader.rs b/components/net/http_loader.rs
index 3044526c1c9..9332eca67b1 100644
--- a/components/net/http_loader.rs
+++ b/components/net/http_loader.rs
@@ -1225,20 +1225,7 @@ async fn http_network_or_cache_fetch(
 
     // Step 5.16
     let current_url = http_request.current_url();
-    if !http_request.headers.contains_key(header::HOST) {
-        let host = if current_url.port().is_none() {
-            current_url.host_str().unwrap().to_string()
-        } else {
-            format!(
-                "{}:{}",
-                current_url.host_str().unwrap(),
-                current_url.port().unwrap()
-            )
-        };
-        http_request.headers.typed_insert(headers::Host::from(
-            host.parse::<http::uri::Authority>().unwrap(),
-        ));
-    }
+    http_request.headers.remove(header::HOST);
 
     // unlike http_loader, we should not set the accept header
     // here, according to the fetch spec
diff --git a/components/net/tests/fetch.rs b/components/net/tests/fetch.rs
index 7b9a140bcb4..6faf1d362e3 100644
--- a/components/net/tests/fetch.rs
+++ b/components/net/tests/fetch.rs
@@ -1359,15 +1359,6 @@ fn test_fetch_with_devtools() {
 
     headers.typed_insert::<UserAgent>(DEFAULT_USER_AGENT.parse().unwrap());
 
-    let host = if url.port().is_none() {
-        url.host_str().unwrap().to_string()
-    } else {
-        format!("{}:{}", url.host_str().unwrap(), url.port().unwrap())
-    };
-    headers.typed_insert(headers::Host::from(
-        host.parse::<http::uri::Authority>().unwrap(),
-    ));
-
     headers.insert(
         header::ACCEPT_ENCODING,
         HeaderValue::from_static("gzip, deflate, br"),
diff --git a/components/net/tests/http_loader.rs b/components/net/tests/http_loader.rs
index 6c551440a82..324b75daa7f 100644
--- a/components/net/tests/http_loader.rs
+++ b/components/net/tests/http_loader.rs
@@ -266,8 +266,6 @@ fn test_request_and_response_data_with_network_messages() {
     //Creating default headers for request
     let mut headers = HeaderMap::new();
 
-    headers.insert(header::HOST, HeaderValue::from_static("bar.foo"));
-
     headers.insert(
         header::ACCEPT,
         HeaderValue::from_static("text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8"),