diff --git a/libfreerdp/core/gateway/rdg.c b/libfreerdp/core/gateway/rdg.c
index a06678428..26a4d8672 100644
--- a/libfreerdp/core/gateway/rdg.c
+++ b/libfreerdp/core/gateway/rdg.c
@@ -1505,16 +1505,6 @@ static BOOL rdg_establish_data_connection(rdpRdg* rdg, rdpTls* tls, const char*
 		if (!rdg_send_http_request(rdg, tls, method, TransferEncodingChunked))
 			return FALSE;
 
-		response = http_response_recv(tls, TRUE);
-		if (!response)
-		{
-			WLog_Print(rdg->log, WLOG_INFO, "RD Gateway HTTP transport broken.");
-			*rpcFallback = TRUE;
-			return FALSE;
-		}
-
-		http_response_free(response);
-
 		if (rdg->extAuth == HTTP_EXTENDED_AUTH_SSPI_NTLM)
 		{
 			/* create a new auth context for SSPI_NTLM. This must be done after the last