diff --git a/scrapy/contrib/downloadermiddleware/httpcache.py b/scrapy/contrib/downloadermiddleware/httpcache.py
index 6a361679e..90aa6cab7 100644
--- a/scrapy/contrib/downloadermiddleware/httpcache.py
+++ b/scrapy/contrib/downloadermiddleware/httpcache.py
@@ -1,11 +1,7 @@
-from time import time
 from email.utils import formatdate
-from weakref import WeakKeyDictionary
 from scrapy import signals
 from scrapy.exceptions import NotConfigured, IgnoreRequest
-from scrapy.utils.httpobj import urlparse_cached
 from scrapy.utils.misc import load_object
-from scrapy.contrib.httpcache import rfc1123_to_epoch, parse_cachecontrol
 
 
 class HttpCacheMiddleware(object):