diff --git a/agent-bootstrap/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/auto/bootstrap/instrumentation/decorator/HttpServerTracer.java b/agent-bootstrap/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/auto/bootstrap/instrumentation/decorator/HttpServerTracer.java
index 9e53d6617c1d..a2beec8f972b 100644
--- a/agent-bootstrap/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/auto/bootstrap/instrumentation/decorator/HttpServerTracer.java
+++ b/agent-bootstrap/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/auto/bootstrap/instrumentation/decorator/HttpServerTracer.java
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@
 import java.lang.reflect.Method;
 import java.net.URI;
 import java.net.URISyntaxException;
-import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
@@ -48,8 +47,6 @@ public abstract class HttpServerTracer<REQUEST, CONNECTION, STORAGE> extends Bas
 
   protected static final String USER_AGENT = "User-Agent";
 
-  private static final Pattern FORWARDED_SPLIT_PATTERN = Pattern.compile("[;,]");
-
   public HttpServerTracer() {
     super();
   }