diff --git a/Source/CTest/cmCTestCurl.cxx b/Source/CTest/cmCTestCurl.cxx
index 84161f93b4..13b0278b2a 100644
--- a/Source/CTest/cmCTestCurl.cxx
+++ b/Source/CTest/cmCTestCurl.cxx
@@ -118,8 +118,6 @@ bool cmCTestCurl::UploadFile(std::string const& local_file,
   /* enable uploading */
   curl_easy_setopt(this->Curl, CURLOPT_UPLOAD, 1);
 
-  /* HTTP PUT please */
-  ::curl_easy_setopt(this->Curl, CURLOPT_PUT, 1);
   ::curl_easy_setopt(this->Curl, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
 
   FILE* ftpfile = cmsys::SystemTools::Fopen(local_file, "rb");
diff --git a/Source/CTest/cmCTestSubmitHandler.cxx b/Source/CTest/cmCTestSubmitHandler.cxx
index 2bc270e000..3ff8c8f280 100644
--- a/Source/CTest/cmCTestSubmitHandler.cxx
+++ b/Source/CTest/cmCTestSubmitHandler.cxx
@@ -223,8 +223,6 @@ bool cmCTestSubmitHandler::SubmitUsingHTTP(
                            submitInactivityTimeout);
       }
 
-      /* HTTP PUT please */
-      ::curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PUT, 1);
       ::curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
 
       ::curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, headers);