diff --git a/tools/crash_server.py b/tools/crash_server.py
index e10273e43..a05e800bc 100644
--- a/tools/crash_server.py
+++ b/tools/crash_server.py
@@ -175,7 +175,6 @@ class CrashHTTPRequestHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
       size_str += self.rfile.read(1)
     # Remove the trailing "\r\n".
     size_str = size_str[:-2]
-    assert len(size_str) <= 4
     return int(size_str, 16)
 
   def _get_chunk_data(self, chunk_size):