diff --git a/lib/OpenLayers/Request.js b/lib/OpenLayers/Request.js
index 3a5865bc0a..c1598143ad 100644
--- a/lib/OpenLayers/Request.js
+++ b/lib/OpenLayers/Request.js
@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@
  * @requires OpenLayers/Events.js
  */
 
+/**
+ * TODO: deprecate me
+ * Use OpenLayers.Request.proxy instead.
+ */
+OpenLayers.ProxyHost = "";
+
 /**
  * Namespace: OpenLayers.Request
  * The OpenLayers.Request namespace contains convenience methods for working
diff --git a/lib/OpenLayers/Ajax.js b/lib/deprecated.js
similarity index 94%
rename from lib/OpenLayers/Ajax.js
rename to lib/deprecated.js
index 92235025ae..af9792dcd5 100644
--- a/lib/OpenLayers/Ajax.js
+++ b/lib/deprecated.js
@@ -1,40 +1,3 @@
-/* Copyright (c) 2006-2011 by OpenLayers Contributors (see authors.txt for 
- * full list of contributors). Published under the Clear BSD license.  
- * See http://svn.openlayers.org/trunk/openlayers/license.txt for the
- * full text of the license. */
-
-/**
- * @requires OpenLayers/Request/XMLHttpRequest.js
- * @requires OpenLayers/Console.js
- * @requires OpenLayers/Lang.js
- */
-
-OpenLayers.ProxyHost = "";
-//OpenLayers.ProxyHost = "examples/proxy.cgi?url=";
-
-/**
- * Ajax reader for OpenLayers
- *
- *  @uri url to do remote XML http get
- *  @param {String} 'get' format params (x=y&a=b...)
- *  @who object to handle callbacks for this request
- *  @complete  the function to be called on success 
- *  @failure  the function to be called on failure
- *  
- *   example usage from a caller:
- *  
- *     caps: function(request) {
- *      -blah-  
- *     },
- *  
- *     OpenLayers.loadURL(url,params,this,caps);
- *
- * Notice the above example does not provide an error handler; a default empty
- * handler is provided which merely logs the error if a failure handler is not 
- * supplied
- *
- */
-
 
 /**
  * Function: OpenLayers.nullHandler