diff --git a/sdk/lib/_http/http_impl.dart b/sdk/lib/_http/http_impl.dart
index 983a4fb..018a8ea 100644
--- a/sdk/lib/_http/http_impl.dart
+++ b/sdk/lib/_http/http_impl.dart
@@ -2235,12 +2235,7 @@
           .catchError(connect);
     }
 
-    // Make sure we go through the event loop before taking a
-    // connection from the pool. For long-running synchronous code the
-    // server might have closed the connection, so this lowers the
-    // probability of getting a connection that was already closed.
-    return new Future<_ConnectionInfo>(
-        () => connect(new HttpException("No proxies given")));
+    return connect(new HttpException("No proxies given"));
   }
 
   _SiteCredentials _findCredentials(Uri url, [_AuthenticationScheme scheme]) {