diff --git a/build/tools/travis-ci.sh b/build/tools/travis-ci.sh
index 1c07d12bdf..a91947b1dc 100755
--- a/build/tools/travis-ci.sh
+++ b/build/tools/travis-ci.sh
@@ -14,10 +14,21 @@ export NO_AT_BRIDGE=1
 
 launch_httpbin() {
     echo 'travis_fold:start:httpbin'
-    echo 'Running httpbin container...'
-    docker pull kennethreitz/httpbin
-    docker run -d -p 80:80 kennethreitz/httpbin
-    WX_TEST_WEBREQUEST_URL="http://localhost"
+    echo 'Running httpbin...'
+
+    # Prefer to use docker if it's available as it's more robust than dealing
+    # with pip -- but we need to have a fallback as at least Mac builds don't
+    # have docker.
+    if command -v docker; then
+        docker pull kennethreitz/httpbin
+        docker run -d -p 80:80 kennethreitz/httpbin
+        WX_TEST_WEBREQUEST_URL="http://localhost"
+    else
+        pip install httpbin
+        python -m httpbin.core &
+        WX_TEST_WEBREQUEST_URL="http://localhost:5000"
+    fi
+
     export WX_TEST_WEBREQUEST_URL
     echo 'travis_fold:end:httpbin'
 }