diff --git a/instrumentation/http-url-connection/javaagent/src/test/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/instrumentation/httpurlconnection/StreamUtils.java b/instrumentation/http-url-connection/javaagent/src/test/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/instrumentation/httpurlconnection/StreamUtils.java
index 1af8d42129..e1bbe19b16 100644
--- a/instrumentation/http-url-connection/javaagent/src/test/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/instrumentation/httpurlconnection/StreamUtils.java
+++ b/instrumentation/http-url-connection/javaagent/src/test/java/io/opentelemetry/javaagent/instrumentation/httpurlconnection/StreamUtils.java
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ package io.opentelemetry.javaagent.instrumentation.httpurlconnection;
 
 import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
 
-import com.google.common.base.Strings;
 import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
@@ -19,9 +18,9 @@ final class StreamUtils {
   static List<String> readLines(InputStream stream) throws IOException {
     List<String> lines = new ArrayList<>();
     BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(stream, UTF_8));
-    while (reader.ready()) {
-      String line = reader.readLine();
-      if (!Strings.isNullOrEmpty(line)) {
+    String line;
+    while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
+      if (!line.isEmpty()) {
         lines.add(line);
       }
     }