diff --git a/libmproxy/console/contentview.py b/libmproxy/console/contentview.py
index 29da60301..1e9b9160f 100644
--- a/libmproxy/console/contentview.py
+++ b/libmproxy/console/contentview.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import urwid
 from PIL import Image
 from PIL.ExifTags import TAGS
 import lxml.html, lxml.etree
+import netlib.utils
 import common
 from .. import utils, encoding, flow
 from ..contrib import jsbeautifier, html2text
@@ -22,7 +23,7 @@ def _view_text(content, total, limit):
         Generates a body for a chunk of text.
     """
     txt = []
-    for i in utils.cleanBin(content).splitlines():
+    for i in netlib.utils.cleanBin(content).splitlines():
         txt.append(
             urwid.Text(("text", i), wrap="any")
         )
@@ -76,7 +77,7 @@ class ViewHex:
     content_types = []
     def __call__(self, hdrs, content, limit):
         txt = []
-        for offset, hexa, s in utils.hexdump(content[:limit]):
+        for offset, hexa, s in netlib.utils.hexdump(content[:limit]):
             txt.append(urwid.Text([
                 ("offset", offset),
                 " ",
@@ -216,7 +217,7 @@ class ViewMultipart:
                     match = rx.search(parts[1])
                     if match:
                         keys.append(match.group(1) + ":")
-                        vals.append(utils.cleanBin(
+                        vals.append(netlib.utils.cleanBin(
                             "\n".join(parts[3+parts[2:].index(""):])
                         ))
             r = [
@@ -306,7 +307,7 @@ class ViewImage:
                     )
         clean = []
         for i in parts:
-            clean.append([utils.cleanBin(i[0]), utils.cleanBin(i[1])])
+            clean.append([netlib.utils.cleanBin(i[0]), netlib.utils.cleanBin(i[1])])
         fmt = common.format_keyvals(
                 clean,
                 key = "header",
diff --git a/libmproxy/dump.py b/libmproxy/dump.py
index 98596b538..170c701dc 100644
--- a/libmproxy/dump.py
+++ b/libmproxy/dump.py
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 # along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
 import sys, os
+import netlib.utils
 import flow, filt, utils
 
 class DumpError(Exception): pass
@@ -175,7 +176,7 @@ class DumpMaster(flow.FlowMaster):
                 result = result + "\n\n" + self.indent(4, f.response.headers)
             if self.o.verbosity > 2:
                 if utils.isBin(f.response.content):
-                    d = utils.hexdump(f.response.content)
+                    d = netlib.utils.hexdump(f.response.content)
                     d = "\n".join("%s\t%s %s"%i for i in d)
                     cont = self.indent(4, d)
                 elif f.response.content:
@@ -199,7 +200,7 @@ class DumpMaster(flow.FlowMaster):
             print >> self.outfile, str_request(f.request)
             print >> self.outfile, self.indent(4, f.request.headers)
             if utils.isBin(f.request.content):
-                print >> self.outfile, self.indent(4, utils.hexdump(f.request.content))
+                print >> self.outfile, self.indent(4, netlib.utils.hexdump(f.request.content))
             elif f.request.content:
                 print >> self.outfile, self.indent(4, f.request.content)
             print >> self.outfile
diff --git a/libmproxy/utils.py b/libmproxy/utils.py
index 69a06a264..6e8048877 100644
--- a/libmproxy/utils.py
+++ b/libmproxy/utils.py
@@ -55,24 +55,6 @@ def isXML(s):
             return False
 
 
-def cleanBin(s, fixspacing=False):
-    """
-        Cleans binary data to make it safe to display. If fixspacing is True,
-        tabs, newlines and so forth will be maintained, if not, they will be
-        replaced with a placeholder.
-    """
-    parts = []
-    for i in s:
-        o = ord(i)
-        if (o > 31 and o < 127):
-            parts.append(i)
-        elif i in "\n\r\t" and not fixspacing:
-            parts.append(i)
-        else:
-            parts.append(".")
-    return "".join(parts)
-
-
 def pretty_json(s):
     try:
         p = json.loads(s)
@@ -96,25 +78,6 @@ def urlencode(s):
     return urllib.urlencode(s, False)
 
 
-def hexdump(s):
-    """
-        Returns a set of typles:
-            (offset, hex, str)
-    """
-    parts = []
-    for i in range(0, len(s), 16):
-        o = "%.10x"%i
-        part = s[i:i+16]
-        x = " ".join("%.2x"%ord(i) for i in part)
-        if len(part) < 16:
-            x += " "
-            x += " ".join("  " for i in range(16 - len(part)))
-        parts.append(
-            (o, x, cleanBin(part, True))
-        )
-    return parts
-
-
 def del_all(dict, keys):
     for key in keys:
         if key in dict:
diff --git a/test/test_utils.py b/test/test_utils.py
index 49312a4b5..db6feb4da 100644
--- a/test/test_utils.py
+++ b/test/test_utils.py
@@ -22,10 +22,6 @@ def test_isXml():
     assert utils.isXML("  \n<foo")
 
 
-def test_hexdump():
-    assert utils.hexdump("one\0"*10)
-
-
 def test_del_all():
     d = dict(a=1, b=2, c=3)
     utils.del_all(d, ["a", "x", "b"])
@@ -125,13 +121,6 @@ def test_parse_content_type():
     assert v == ('text', 'html', {'charset': 'UTF-8'})
 
 
-def test_cleanBin():
-    assert utils.cleanBin("one") == "one"
-    assert utils.cleanBin("\00ne") == ".ne"
-    assert utils.cleanBin("\nne") == "\nne"
-    assert utils.cleanBin("\nne", True) == ".ne"
-
-
 def test_safe_subn():
     assert utils.safe_subn("foo", u"bar", "\xc2foo")