diff --git a/index.php b/index.php
index 747fc409..5578b2de 100644
--- a/index.php
+++ b/index.php
@@ -24,23 +24,6 @@ if (!extension_loaded('openssl'))
 
 // FIXME : beta test UA spoofing, please report any blacklisting by PHP-fopen-unfriendly websites
 ini_set('user_agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:30.0) Gecko/20121202 Firefox/30.0 (rss-bridge/0.1; +https://github.com/sebsauvage/rss-bridge)');
-// cache file purge - delete cache files older than 24 hours
-$cacheTimeLimit = time() - 60*60*24 ;
-$cachePath = 'cache';
-if(file_exists($cachePath)) {
-   $cacheIterator = new RecursiveIteratorIterator(
-     new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($cachePath),
-     RecursiveIteratorIterator::CHILD_FIRST
-   );
-   foreach ($cacheIterator as $cacheFile) {
-      if (in_array($cacheFile->getBasename(), array('.', '..')))
-         continue;
-      elseif ($cacheFile->isFile()) {
-         if( filemtime($cacheFile->getPathname()) < $cacheTimeLimit )
-            unlink( $cacheFile->getPathname() );
-         }
-   }
-}
 
 // default whitelist
 $whitelist_file = './whitelist.txt';