diff --git a/AFNetworking/AFURLConnectionOperation.h b/AFNetworking/AFURLConnectionOperation.h
index 2ce5609..0ac9e10 100644
--- a/AFNetworking/AFURLConnectionOperation.h
+++ b/AFNetworking/AFURLConnectionOperation.h
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@
  - `connection:didSendBodyData:totalBytesWritten:totalBytesExpectedToWrite:`
  - `connection:willCacheResponse:`
  - `connectionShouldUseCredentialStorage:`
- - `connection:needNewBodyStream:`
  - `connection:willSendRequestForAuthenticationChallenge:`
 
  If any of these methods are overridden in a subclass, they _must_ call the `super` implementation first.
@@ -293,7 +292,6 @@ NSCoding, NSCopying>
  */
 - (void)setRedirectResponseBlock:(NSURLRequest * (^)(NSURLConnection *connection, NSURLRequest *request, NSURLResponse *redirectResponse))block;
 
-
 /**
  Sets a block to be executed to modify the response a connection will cache, if any, as handled by the `NSURLConnectionDelegate` method `connection:willCacheResponse:`.
 
diff --git a/AFNetworking/AFURLConnectionOperation.m b/AFNetworking/AFURLConnectionOperation.m
index 92dad72..b71f5e8 100644
--- a/AFNetworking/AFURLConnectionOperation.m
+++ b/AFNetworking/AFURLConnectionOperation.m
@@ -687,18 +687,6 @@ willSendRequestForAuthenticationChallenge:(NSURLAuthenticationChallenge *)challe
     return self.shouldUseCredentialStorage;
 }
 
-- (NSInputStream *)connection:(NSURLConnection __unused *)connection
-            needNewBodyStream:(NSURLRequest *)request
-{
-    if ([request.HTTPBodyStream conformsToProtocol:@protocol(NSCopying)]) {
-        return [request.HTTPBodyStream copy];
-    } else {
-        [self cancelConnection];
-        
-        return nil;
-    }
-}
-
 - (NSURLRequest *)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection
              willSendRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request
             redirectResponse:(NSURLResponse *)redirectResponse