diff --git a/net-doc/net/scribblings/cookies.scrbl b/net-doc/net/scribblings/cookies.scrbl
index 145ee0d3f8..d3727583d5 100644
--- a/net-doc/net/scribblings/cookies.scrbl
+++ b/net-doc/net/scribblings/cookies.scrbl
@@ -170,16 +170,10 @@ HttpOnly} for more info.)
  @examples[
  #:eval cookies-server-eval
  (clear-cookie-header "rememberUser" #:path "/main")
- (require racket/date)
- (date->string (seconds->date (current-seconds) #f) #t)
  ]
 
 }
 
-@defstruct*[(exn:fail:cookie exn:fail) ()]{
-Raised when a cookie (or component thereof) is malformed or can't be parsed.
-}
-
 @defproc*[([(cookie-header->alist [header bytes?])
             (listof (cons/c bytes? bytes?))]
            [(cookie-header->alist [header bytes?]
@@ -189,10 +183,8 @@ Raised when a cookie (or component thereof) is malformed or can't be parsed.
  alist of all cookie name/value mappings in the header. If a
  @racket[decode] function is given, applies @racket[decode]
  to each key and each value before inserting the new
- key-value pair into the alist. Raises an 
- @racket[exn:fail:cookie] if the header can't be parsed into
- a sequence of name/value pairs (but does not check that the
- byte-string obeys all the cookie formatting requirements).
+ key-value pair into the alist. Invalid cookies will not
+ be present in the alist.
 
  If a key in the header has no value, then @racket[#""], or
  @racket[(decode #"")] if @racket[decode] is present, is
@@ -209,7 +201,6 @@ Raised when a cookie (or component thereof) is malformed or can't be parsed.
 
 }
 
-
 @defproc[(cookie->string [c cookie?])
          string?]{
   Produces a string containing the given cookie as text.
diff --git a/net-lib/net/cookies/server.rkt b/net-lib/net/cookies/server.rkt
index 9331ef145f..3d9d698265 100644
--- a/net-lib/net/cookies/server.rkt
+++ b/net-lib/net/cookies/server.rkt
@@ -34,10 +34,6 @@
                              bytes?)]
                        [cookie->string (-> cookie? string?)]
                        
-                       (struct (exn:fail:cookie exn:fail)
-                         ([message string?]
-                          [continuation-marks continuation-mark-set?]))
-                       
                        #:forall X
                        [cookie-header->alist
                         (case-> (-> bytes? (listof (cons/c bytes? bytes?)))
@@ -82,10 +78,6 @@
                 #:path path
                 #:domain domain)))
 
-;; For failure to parse a cookie on the server side:
-;; FIXME I'm not sure I like raising exns for this.
-(struct exn:fail:cookie exn:fail ()) 
-
 ;; bytes? [(bytes? -> A)] -> (AList A A)
 ;; Given the value from a Cookie: header, produces an alist of name/value
 ;; mappings. If there is no value, the empty byte-string (or whatever