diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index b7cef202000..dbf616a06e0 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -477,6 +477,9 @@ Release 0.23.3 - UNRELEASED
     MAPREDUCE-4270. Move the data_join test classes to the correct path.
     (Thomas Graves via sseth)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-3889. job client tries to use /tasklog interface, but that
+    doesn't exist anymore (Devaraj K via bobby)
+
 Release 0.23.2 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/Job.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/Job.java
index 51bac982285..2fd666e8272 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/Job.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/Job.java
@@ -18,30 +18,19 @@
 
 package org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce;
 
-import java.io.BufferedReader;
-import java.io.BufferedWriter;
-import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.InputStream;
-import java.io.InputStreamReader;
-import java.io.OutputStream;
-import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
-import java.net.URL;
-import java.net.URLConnection;
 import java.net.URI;
 import java.security.PrivilegedExceptionAction;
-import java.util.List;
 
 import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
 import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience;
-import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience.Private;
 import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceStability;
+import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience.Private;
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration.IntegerRanges;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
-import org.apache.hadoop.io.IOUtils;
 import org.apache.hadoop.io.RawComparator;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobConf;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.filecache.DistributedCache;
@@ -1367,14 +1356,6 @@ public class Job extends JobContextImpl implements JobContext {
       Job.TaskStatusFilter filter, boolean profiling, IntegerRanges mapRanges,
       IntegerRanges reduceRanges) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
     for (TaskCompletionEvent event : events) {
-      TaskCompletionEvent.Status status = event.getStatus();
-      if (profiling && shouldDownloadProfile() &&
-         (status == TaskCompletionEvent.Status.SUCCEEDED ||
-            status == TaskCompletionEvent.Status.FAILED) &&
-            (event.isMapTask() ? mapRanges : reduceRanges).
-              isIncluded(event.idWithinJob())) {
-        downloadProfile(event);
-      }
       switch (filter) {
       case NONE:
         break;
@@ -1382,7 +1363,6 @@ public class Job extends JobContextImpl implements JobContext {
         if (event.getStatus() == 
           TaskCompletionEvent.Status.SUCCEEDED) {
           LOG.info(event.toString());
-          displayTaskLogs(event.getTaskAttemptId(), event.getTaskTrackerHttp());
         }
         break; 
       case FAILED:
@@ -1397,8 +1377,6 @@ public class Job extends JobContextImpl implements JobContext {
               System.err.println(diagnostics);
             }
           }
-          // Displaying the task logs
-          displayTaskLogs(event.getTaskAttemptId(), event.getTaskTrackerHttp());
         }
         break; 
       case KILLED:
@@ -1408,67 +1386,10 @@ public class Job extends JobContextImpl implements JobContext {
         break; 
       case ALL:
         LOG.info(event.toString());
-        displayTaskLogs(event.getTaskAttemptId(), event.getTaskTrackerHttp());
         break;
       }
     }
   }
-  
-  private void downloadProfile(TaskCompletionEvent e) throws IOException  {
-    URLConnection connection = new URL(
-      getTaskLogURL(e.getTaskAttemptId(), e.getTaskTrackerHttp()) + 
-      "&filter=profile").openConnection();
-    InputStream in = connection.getInputStream();
-    OutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(e.getTaskAttemptId() + ".profile");
-    IOUtils.copyBytes(in, out, 64 * 1024, true);
-  }
-  
-  private void displayTaskLogs(TaskAttemptID taskId, String baseUrl)
-      throws IOException {
-    // The tasktracker for a 'failed/killed' job might not be around...
-    if (baseUrl != null) {
-      // Construct the url for the tasklogs
-      String taskLogUrl = getTaskLogURL(taskId, baseUrl);
-      
-      // Copy tasks's stdout of the JobClient
-      getTaskLogs(taskId, new URL(taskLogUrl+"&filter=stdout"), System.out);
-        
-      // Copy task's stderr to stderr of the JobClient 
-      getTaskLogs(taskId, new URL(taskLogUrl+"&filter=stderr"), System.err);
-    }
-  }
-    
-  private void getTaskLogs(TaskAttemptID taskId, URL taskLogUrl, 
-                           OutputStream out) {
-    try {
-      int tasklogtimeout = cluster.getConf().getInt(
-        TASKLOG_PULL_TIMEOUT_KEY, DEFAULT_TASKLOG_TIMEOUT);
-      URLConnection connection = taskLogUrl.openConnection();
-      connection.setReadTimeout(tasklogtimeout);
-      connection.setConnectTimeout(tasklogtimeout);
-      BufferedReader input = 
-        new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()));
-      BufferedWriter output = 
-        new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(out));
-      try {
-        String logData = null;
-        while ((logData = input.readLine()) != null) {
-          if (logData.length() > 0) {
-            output.write(taskId + ": " + logData + "\n");
-            output.flush();
-          }
-        }
-      } finally {
-        input.close();
-      }
-    } catch(IOException ioe) {
-      LOG.warn("Error reading task output " + ioe.getMessage()); 
-    }
-  }
-  
-  private String getTaskLogURL(TaskAttemptID taskId, String baseUrl) {
-    return (baseUrl + "/tasklog?plaintext=true&attemptid=" + taskId); 
-  }
 
   /** The interval at which monitorAndPrintJob() prints status */
   public static int getProgressPollInterval(Configuration conf) {