diff --git a/java/google/registry/loadtest/LoadTestAction.java b/java/google/registry/loadtest/LoadTestAction.java
index 8e4212707..59c59adc6 100644
--- a/java/google/registry/loadtest/LoadTestAction.java
+++ b/java/google/registry/loadtest/LoadTestAction.java
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ import static com.google.common.collect.Lists.transform;
 import static google.registry.security.XsrfTokenManager.X_CSRF_TOKEN;
 import static google.registry.util.FormattingLogger.getLoggerForCallerClass;
 import static google.registry.util.ResourceUtils.readResourceUtf8;
-import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 import static java.util.Arrays.asList;
 import static org.joda.time.DateTimeZone.UTC;
 
@@ -37,8 +36,6 @@ import google.registry.request.Parameter;
 import google.registry.security.XsrfTokenManager;
 import google.registry.util.FormattingLogger;
 import google.registry.util.TaskEnqueuer;
-import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
-import java.net.URLEncoder;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Iterator;
 import java.util.List;
@@ -339,19 +336,11 @@ public class LoadTestAction implements Runnable {
           .param("clientId", clientId)
           .param("superuser", Boolean.FALSE.toString())
           .param("dryRun", Boolean.FALSE.toString())
-          .param("xml", urlEncode(xmls.get(i))));
+          .param("xml", xmls.get(i)));
     }
     return tasks.build();
   }
 
-  private String urlEncode(String xml) {
-    try {
-      return URLEncoder.encode(xml, UTF_8.toString());
-    } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
-      throw new RuntimeException(e);
-    }
-  }
-
   private void enqueue(List<TaskOptions> tasks) {
     List<List<TaskOptions>> chunks = partition(tasks, maxTasksPerAdd());
     // Farm out tasks to multiple queues to work around queue qps quotas.