diff --git a/st2common/st2common/transport/publishers.py b/st2common/st2common/transport/publishers.py
index ddf5d2f8c9..73596ed70e 100644
--- a/st2common/st2common/transport/publishers.py
+++ b/st2common/st2common/transport/publishers.py
@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@
 class PoolPublisher(object):
     def __init__(self, urls=None):
         """
-        :param urls: Connection URLs to use. If not provided it uses a default value from th
-                     config.
+        :param urls: Connection URLs to use. If not provided it uses a default value from
+                     the config.
         :type urls: ``list``
         """
         urls = urls or transport_utils.get_messaging_urls()
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ def publish(self, payload, exchange, routing_key="", compression=None):
                 )
 
                 def do_publish(connection, channel):
-                    # ProducerPool ends up creating it own ConnectionPool which ends up
+                    # ProducerPool ends up creating its own ConnectionPool which ends up
                     # completely invalidating this ConnectionPool. Also, a ConnectionPool for
                     # producer does not really solve any problems for us so better to create a
                     # Producer for each publish.
diff --git a/st2common/tests/unit/test_transport.py b/st2common/tests/unit/test_transport.py
index ae12b1ea9d..4e613716b8 100644
--- a/st2common/tests/unit/test_transport.py
+++ b/st2common/tests/unit/test_transport.py
@@ -97,9 +97,6 @@ def test_publish_compression(self):
         self.assertEqual(
             watcher.received_messages[0][1].properties["content_encoding"], "binary"
         )
-        self.assertEqual(
-            watcher.received_messages[0][1].properties["application_headers"], {}
-        )
         self.assertEqual(watcher.received_messages[0][0].id, live_action_db.id)
 
         # 2. Verify config level option is used