diff --git a/actix-web-httpauth/src/headers/authorization/scheme/basic.rs b/actix-web-httpauth/src/headers/authorization/scheme/basic.rs
index 107217ba3..76b2ec451 100644
--- a/actix-web-httpauth/src/headers/authorization/scheme/basic.rs
+++ b/actix-web-httpauth/src/headers/authorization/scheme/basic.rs
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ use std::str;
 use actix_web::http::header::{
     HeaderValue, IntoHeaderValue, InvalidHeaderValue,
 };
-use base64;
 use bytes::{BufMut, BytesMut};
 
 use crate::headers::authorization::errors::ParseError;