diff --git a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/modules/websocket/BUCK b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/modules/websocket/BUCK
index 87c26ff73..6289e0598 100644
--- a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/modules/websocket/BUCK
+++ b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/modules/websocket/BUCK
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ android_library(
     react_native_target('java/com/facebook/react/bridge:bridge'),
     react_native_target('java/com/facebook/react/common:common'),
     react_native_target('java/com/facebook/react/modules/core:core'),
-    react_native_target('java/com/facebook/react/modules/network:network'),
     react_native_dep('libraries/fbcore/src/main/java/com/facebook/common/logging:logging'),
     react_native_dep('third-party/java/infer-annotations:infer-annotations'),
     react_native_dep('third-party/java/jsr-305:jsr-305'),
diff --git a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/modules/websocket/WebSocketModule.java b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/modules/websocket/WebSocketModule.java
index fc2a422b4..938136f36 100644
--- a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/modules/websocket/WebSocketModule.java
+++ b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/modules/websocket/WebSocketModule.java
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ import com.facebook.react.bridge.ReadableType;
 import com.facebook.react.bridge.WritableMap;
 import com.facebook.react.common.ReactConstants;
 import com.facebook.react.modules.core.DeviceEventManagerModule;
-import com.facebook.react.modules.network.ForwardingCookieHandler;
 
 import com.squareup.okhttp.OkHttpClient;
 import com.squareup.okhttp.Request;
@@ -40,7 +39,6 @@ import com.squareup.okhttp.ws.WebSocketListener;
 import java.net.URISyntaxException;
 import java.net.URI;
 import java.util.HashMap;
-import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 
@@ -52,12 +50,10 @@ public class WebSocketModule extends ReactContextBaseJavaModule {
 
   private Map<Integer, WebSocket> mWebSocketConnections = new HashMap<>();
   private ReactContext mReactContext;
-  private ForwardingCookieHandler cookieHandler;
 
   public WebSocketModule(ReactApplicationContext context) {
     super(context);
     mReactContext = context;
-    cookieHandler = new ForwardingCookieHandler(context);
   }
 
   private void sendEvent(String eventName, WritableMap params) {
@@ -84,11 +80,6 @@ public class WebSocketModule extends ReactContextBaseJavaModule {
         .tag(id)
         .url(url);
 
-    String cookie = getCookie(url);
-    if (cookie != null) {
-      builder.addHeader("Cookie", getCookie(url));
-    }
-    
     if (headers != null) {
       ReadableMapKeySetIterator iterator = headers.keySetIterator();
 
@@ -281,25 +272,4 @@ public class WebSocketModule extends ReactContextBaseJavaModule {
     }
   }
 
-  /**
-   * Get cookie if exists
-   *
-   * @param websocket uri
-   * @return A cookie / null
-   */
-
-  private String getCookie(String uri){
-    try {
-      Map<String, List<String>> cookieMap = cookieHandler.get(new URI(setDefaultOrigin(uri)), new HashMap());
-      List<String> cookieList = cookieMap.get("Cookie");
-      if (cookieList != null) {
-        return cookieList.get(0);
-      } else {
-        return null;
-      }
-    } catch(URISyntaxException | IOException  e) {
-      throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unable to get cookie from the " + uri);
-    }
-  }
-
 }