diff --git a/jetty-core/jetty-util/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/util/StringUtil.java b/jetty-core/jetty-util/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/util/StringUtil.java
index ebc4697b65a..541629977d1 100644
--- a/jetty-core/jetty-util/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/util/StringUtil.java
+++ b/jetty-core/jetty-util/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/util/StringUtil.java
@@ -17,11 +17,8 @@ import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
 import java.nio.charset.Charset;
 import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
-import java.util.Collections;
-import java.util.Iterator;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Objects;
-import java.util.StringTokenizer;
 import java.util.concurrent.ThreadLocalRandom;
 import java.util.stream.IntStream;
 
@@ -984,36 +981,6 @@ public class StringUtil
         return csvSplit(s, 1, s.length() - 2);
     }
 
-    /**
-     * Present the results of a {@link StringTokenizer} as an {@link Iterator} of type {@link String}
-     * @param input the StringTokenizer input
-     * @param delim the StringTokenizer delim
-     * @return the resulting iterator for the StringTokenizer
-     * @see StringTokenizer#StringTokenizer(java.lang.String, java.lang.String)
-     */
-    public static Iterator<String> tokenizerAsIterator(String input, String delim)
-    {
-        if (isBlank(input))
-            return Collections.emptyIterator();
-
-        return new Iterator<>()
-        {
-            StringTokenizer tokenizer = new StringTokenizer(input, delim);
-
-            @Override
-            public boolean hasNext()
-            {
-                return tokenizer.hasMoreTokens();
-            }
-
-            @Override
-            public String next()
-            {
-                return tokenizer.nextToken();
-            }
-        };
-    }
-
     /**
      * Parse a CSV string using {@link #csvSplit(List, String, int, int)}
      *