--- a/google_apis/gaia/gaia_auth_fetcher.cc	2017-10-17 15:10:41.000000000 -0400
+++ b/google_apis/gaia/gaia_auth_fetcher.cc	2017-10-18 10:50:58.344372939 -0400
@@ -251,54 +251,6 @@
     const net::NetworkTrafficAnnotationTag& traffic_annotation) {
   DCHECK(!fetch_pending_) << "Tried to fetch two things at once!";
 
-  auto resource_request = std::make_unique<network::ResourceRequest>();
-  resource_request->url = gaia_gurl;
-  original_url_ = gaia_gurl;
-
-  if (!body.empty())
-    resource_request->method = "POST";
-
-  if (!headers.empty())
-    resource_request->headers.AddHeadersFromString(headers);
-
-  // The Gaia token exchange requests do not require any cookie-based
-  // identification as part of requests.  We suppress sending any cookies to
-  // maintain a separation between the user's browsing and Chrome's internal
-  // services.  Where such mixing is desired (MergeSession or OAuthLogin), it
-  // will be done explicitly.
-  resource_request->load_flags = load_flags;
-
-  // Use raw headers as the cookies are filtered-out of the response when
-  // serialized at the IPC layer.
-  resource_request->report_raw_headers = true;
-
-  url_loader_ = network::SimpleURLLoader::Create(std::move(resource_request),
-                                                 traffic_annotation);
-  if (!body.empty())
-    url_loader_->AttachStringForUpload(body,
-                                       "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
-
-  url_loader_->SetAllowHttpErrorResults(true);
-
-  VLOG(2) << "Gaia fetcher URL: " << gaia_gurl.spec();
-  VLOG(2) << "Gaia fetcher headers: " << headers;
-  VLOG(2) << "Gaia fetcher body: " << body;
-
-  // Fetchers are sometimes cancelled because a network change was detected,
-  // especially at startup and after sign-in on ChromeOS. Retrying once should
-  // be enough in those cases; let the fetcher retry up to 3 times just in case.
-  // http://crbug.com/163710
-  url_loader_->SetRetryOptions(
-      3, network::SimpleURLLoader::RETRY_ON_NETWORK_CHANGE);
-
-  fetch_pending_ = true;
-
-  // Unretained is OK below as |url_loader_| is owned by this.
-  url_loader_->DownloadToString(
-      url_loader_factory_.get(),
-      base::BindOnce(&GaiaAuthFetcher::OnURLLoadComplete,
-                     base::Unretained(this)),
-      kMaxMessageSize);
 }
 
 // static