diff --git a/src/main/java/com/corundumstudio/socketio/protocol/PacketDecoder.java b/src/main/java/com/corundumstudio/socketio/protocol/PacketDecoder.java
index 65e92c1..a2a317b 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/corundumstudio/socketio/protocol/PacketDecoder.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/corundumstudio/socketio/protocol/PacketDecoder.java
@@ -65,12 +65,6 @@ public class PacketDecoder {
             */
             packet = packet.replace("\\\\n", "\\n");
         }
-
-        int splitIndex = packet.indexOf(":");
-        String len = packet.substring(startPos, splitIndex);
-        Integer length = Integer.valueOf(len);
-
-        packet = packet.substring(splitIndex+1, splitIndex+length+1);
         packet = new String(packet.getBytes(CharsetUtil.ISO_8859_1), CharsetUtil.UTF_8);
 
         return Unpooled.wrappedBuffer(packet.getBytes(CharsetUtil.UTF_8));