diff --git a/ironicclient/exc.py b/ironicclient/exc.py
index 5b35ef070..da7be7307 100644
--- a/ironicclient/exc.py
+++ b/ironicclient/exc.py
@@ -60,14 +60,4 @@ def from_response(response, message=None, traceback=None, method=None,
         # to handle faultstring.
         response.json = lambda: {'error': error_body}
 
-    if (response.headers['Content-Type'].startswith('text/') and
-            not hasattr(response, 'text')):
-        # NOTE(clif_h): There seems to be a case in the
-        # openstack.common.apiclient.exceptions module where if the
-        # content-type of the response is text/* then it expects
-        # the response to have a 'text' attribute, but that
-        # doesn't always seem to necessarily be the case.
-        # This is to work around that problem.
-        response.text = ''
-
     return exceptions.from_response(response, message, url)