diff --git a/lib/HttpCachingBridgeAbstract.php b/lib/HttpCachingBridgeAbstract.php
deleted file mode 100644
index 364606e9..00000000
--- a/lib/HttpCachingBridgeAbstract.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-require_once(__DIR__ . '/BridgeInterface.php');
-/**
- * Extension of BridgeAbstract allowing caching of files downloaded over http.
- */
-abstract class HttpCachingBridgeAbstract extends BridgeAbstract {
-    /**
-     * Maintain locally cached versions of pages to download, to avoid multiple downloads.
-     * @param url url to cache
-     * @param duration duration of the cache file in seconds (default: 24h/86400s)
-     * @return content of the file as string
-     */
-    public function get_cached($url, $duration = 86400){
-        $this->debugMessage('Caching url ' . $url . ', duration ' . $duration);
-
-        $filepath = __DIR__ . '/../cache/pages/' . sha1($url) . '.cache';
-        $this->debugMessage('Cache file ' . $filepath);
-
-        if(file_exists($filepath) && filectime($filepath) < time() - $duration){
-            unlink ($filepath);
-            $this->debugMessage('Cached file deleted: ' . $filepath);
-        }
-
-        if(file_exists($filepath)){
-            $this->debugMessage('Loading cached file ' . $filepath);
-            touch($filepath);
-            $content = file_get_contents($filepath);
-        } else {
-            $this->debugMessage('Caching ' . $url . ' to ' . $filepath);
-            $dir = substr($filepath, 0, strrpos($filepath, '/'));
-
-            if(!is_dir($dir)){
-                $this->debugMessage('Creating directory ' . $dir);
-                mkdir($dir, 0777, true);
-            }
-
-            $content = $this->getContents($url);
-            if($content !== false){
-                file_put_contents($filepath, $content);
-            }
-        }
-
-        return str_get_html($content);
-    }
-}
diff --git a/lib/RssBridge.php b/lib/RssBridge.php
index 6dd26631..07286831 100644
--- a/lib/RssBridge.php
+++ b/lib/RssBridge.php
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ require __DIR__ . '/Format.php';
 require __DIR__ . '/FormatAbstract.php';
 require __DIR__ . '/Bridge.php';
 require __DIR__ . '/BridgeAbstract.php';
-require __DIR__ . '/HttpCachingBridgeAbstract.php';
 require __DIR__ . '/FeedExpander.php';
 require __DIR__ . '/Cache.php';
 require __DIR__ . '/CacheAbstract.php';