diff --git a/openstackclient/common/exceptions.py b/openstackclient/common/exceptions.py
index ee0f7a110..5f81e6a6e 100644
--- a/openstackclient/common/exceptions.py
+++ b/openstackclient/common/exceptions.py
@@ -108,28 +108,3 @@ _code_map = dict((c.http_status, c) for c in [
     OverLimit,
     HTTPNotImplemented
 ])
-
-
-def from_response(response, body):
-    """Return an instance of a ClientException based on an httplib2 response.
-
-    Usage::
-
-        resp, body = http.request(...)
-        if resp.status != 200:
-            raise exception_from_response(resp, body)
-    """
-    cls = _code_map.get(response.status, ClientException)
-    if body:
-        if hasattr(body, 'keys'):
-            error = body[list(body.keys())[0]]
-            message = error.get('message')
-            details = error.get('details')
-        else:
-            # If we didn't get back a properly formed error message we
-            # probably couldn't communicate with Keystone at all.
-            message = "Unable to communicate with image service: %s." % body
-            details = None
-        return cls(code=response.status, message=message, details=details)
-    else:
-        return cls(code=response.status)