diff --git a/spring-boot-modules/spring-boot-runtime/src/main/java/com/baeldung/web/log/util/RequestLoggingUtil.java b/spring-boot-modules/spring-boot-runtime/src/main/java/com/baeldung/web/log/util/RequestLoggingUtil.java
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index 70c4eaee90..0000000000
--- a/spring-boot-modules/spring-boot-runtime/src/main/java/com/baeldung/web/log/util/RequestLoggingUtil.java
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@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-package com.baeldung.web.log.util;
-
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.InputStream;
-import java.io.StringWriter;
-
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
-
-import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
-import org.springframework.web.util.ContentCachingRequestWrapper;
-import org.springframework.web.util.WebUtils;
-
-public class RequestLoggingUtil {
-
-    public static String getStringFromInputStream(InputStream is) {
-        StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
-        String encoding = "UTF-8";
-        try {
-            IOUtils.copy(is, writer, encoding);
-        } catch (IOException e) {
-            e.printStackTrace();
-        }
-        return writer.toString();
-    }
-
-    public static String readPayload(final HttpServletRequest request) throws IOException {
-        String payloadData = null;
-        ContentCachingRequestWrapper contentCachingRequestWrapper = WebUtils.getNativeRequest(request, ContentCachingRequestWrapper.class);
-        if (null != contentCachingRequestWrapper) {
-            byte[] buf = contentCachingRequestWrapper.getContentAsByteArray();
-            if (buf.length > 0) {
-                payloadData = new String(buf, 0, buf.length, contentCachingRequestWrapper.getCharacterEncoding());
-            }
-        }
-        return payloadData;
-    }
-
-}