diff --git a/src/core/server/http/lifecycle/on_pre_routing.ts b/src/core/server/http/lifecycle/on_pre_routing.ts
index dbd00df13707b..be0af8c118627 100644
--- a/src/core/server/http/lifecycle/on_pre_routing.ts
+++ b/src/core/server/http/lifecycle/on_pre_routing.ts
@@ -102,24 +102,7 @@ export function adoptToHapiOnRequest(fn: OnPreRoutingHandler, log: Logger) {
         appState.rewrittenUrl = appState.rewrittenUrl ?? request.url;
 
         const { url } = result;
-
-        // TODO: Remove once we upgrade to Node.js 12!
-        //
-        // Warning: The following for-loop took 10 days to write, and is a hack
-        // to force V8 to make a copy of the string in memory.
-        //
-        // The reason why we need this is because of what appears to be a bug
-        // in V8 that caused some URL paths to not be routed correctly once
-        // `request.setUrl` was called with the path.
-        //
-        // The details can be seen in this discussion on Twitter:
-        // https://twitter.com/wa7son/status/1319992632366518277
-        let urlCopy = '';
-        for (let i = 0; i < url.length; i++) {
-          urlCopy += url[i];
-        }
-
-        request.setUrl(urlCopy);
+        request.setUrl(url);
 
         // We should update raw request as well since it can be proxied to the old platform
         request.raw.req.url = url;