diff --git a/components/script/dom/xmlhttprequest.rs b/components/script/dom/xmlhttprequest.rs
index ba95dc3ffed..1df6ebcb592 100644
--- a/components/script/dom/xmlhttprequest.rs
+++ b/components/script/dom/xmlhttprequest.rs
@@ -25,9 +25,7 @@ use js::rust::{HandleObject, MutableHandleValue};
 use js::typedarray::{ArrayBuffer, ArrayBufferU8};
 use mime::{self, Mime, Name};
 use net_traits::http_status::HttpStatus;
-use net_traits::request::{
-    CredentialsMode, Destination, Referrer, RequestBuilder, RequestId, RequestMode,
-};
+use net_traits::request::{CredentialsMode, Referrer, RequestBuilder, RequestId, RequestMode};
 use net_traits::{
     trim_http_whitespace, FetchMetadata, FetchResponseListener, FilteredMetadata, NetworkError,
     ReferrerPolicy, ResourceFetchTiming, ResourceTimingType,
@@ -682,9 +680,6 @@ impl XMLHttpRequestMethods<crate::DomTypeHolder> for XMLHttpRequest {
         .unsafe_request(true)
         // XXXManishearth figure out how to avoid this clone
         .body(extracted_or_serialized.map(|e| e.into_net_request_body().0))
-        // XXXManishearth actually "subresource", but it doesn't exist
-        // https://github.com/whatwg/xhr/issues/71
-        .destination(Destination::None)
         .synchronous(self.sync.get())
         .mode(RequestMode::CorsMode)
         .use_cors_preflight(self.upload_listener.get())