diff --git a/test/net/http/utils.rb b/test/net/http/utils.rb
index 39f4152ef3..6da7175f13 100644
--- a/test/net/http/utils.rb
+++ b/test/net/http/utils.rb
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ module TestNetHTTPUtils
   def new
     klass = Net::HTTP::Proxy(config('proxy_host'), config('proxy_port'))
     http = klass.new(config('host'), config('port'))
-    http.set_debug_output logfile()
+    http.set_debug_output logfile
     http
   end
 
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ module TestNetHTTPUtils
   end
 
   def logfile
-    $DEBUG ? $stderr : NullWriter.new
+    $stderr if $DEBUG
   end
 
   def setup
@@ -334,16 +334,6 @@ module TestNetHTTPUtils
   $test_net_http_data.force_encoding("ASCII-8BIT")
   $test_net_http_data_type = 'application/octet-stream'
 
-  class NullWriter
-    def <<(_s); end
-
-    def puts(*_args); end
-
-    def print(*_args); end
-
-    def printf(*_args); end
-  end
-
   def self.clean_http_proxy_env
     orig = {
       'http_proxy' => ENV['http_proxy'],