diff --git a/tools/test-requires b/tools/test-requires
index a7524c21c9..675ee69f00 100644
--- a/tools/test-requires
+++ b/tools/test-requires
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ httplib2
 python-keystoneclient>=0.1,<0.2
 
 # swift_auth test dependencies
-https://github.com/openstack/swift/zipball/master#egg=swift
+http://tarballs.openstack.org/swift/swift-master.tar.gz#egg=swift
 netifaces
 
 # For translations processing