diff --git a/src/Server/HTTPHandler.cpp b/src/Server/HTTPHandler.cpp
index 7151765e910..88dd88c6363 100644
--- a/src/Server/HTTPHandler.cpp
+++ b/src/Server/HTTPHandler.cpp
@@ -622,8 +622,6 @@ void HTTPHandler::processQuery(
     size_t buffer_size_http = DBMS_DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE;
     size_t buffer_size_memory = (buffer_size_total > buffer_size_http) ? buffer_size_total : 0;
 
-    unsigned keep_alive_timeout = config.getUInt("keep_alive_timeout", DEFAULT_HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE_TIMEOUT);
-
     bool enable_http_compression = params.getParsed<bool>("enable_http_compression", context->getSettingsRef().enable_http_compression);
     Int64 http_zlib_compression_level = params.getParsed<Int64>("http_zlib_compression_level", context->getSettingsRef().http_zlib_compression_level);