diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index bf99d8b0..058bfdfb 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -3,24 +3,11 @@ dist: xenial
 env:
   - DOCKER_COMPOSE_VERSION: 1.23.1
 
-addons:
-  apt:
-    packages:
-      - build-essential
-      - nghttp2
-      - libnghttp2-dev
-      - libssl-dev
 
 services:
   - docker
 
 before_install:
-  - wget https://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.63.0.tar.gz && tar xzf curl-7.63.0.tar.gz
-  - cd curl-7.63.0
-  - sudo apt-get -y remove curl
-  - ./configure --with-nghttp2 --with-ssl
-  - make && sudo make install
-  - sudo ldconfig && cd ..
   - curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
   - sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable"
   - sudo apt-get update
diff --git a/test.sh b/test.sh
index 7f021109..c0f5e673 100644
--- a/test.sh
+++ b/test.sh
@@ -2,5 +2,13 @@
 
 ./dbench start > /tmp/bench.log &
 
-curl --version
-curl --retry 20 --retry-delay 1 --retry-connrefused "http://localhost:8000/login" | grep '<title> Login </title>' || exit 1
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+output=$(
+  while ! curl "http://localhost:8000/login"
+  do
+      { echo "Exit status of curl: $?"
+      } 1>&2
+      sleep 1
+  done
+)
+
+echo "${output}" | grep '<title> Login </title>' || exit 1
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