diff --git a/tests/Mono.Android-Tests/System.Net/ProxyTest.cs b/tests/Mono.Android-Tests/System.Net/ProxyTest.cs
index efe746c7cee..a8149eccd3c 100644
--- a/tests/Mono.Android-Tests/System.Net/ProxyTest.cs
+++ b/tests/Mono.Android-Tests/System.Net/ProxyTest.cs
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ public class ProxyTest {
 		[Test]
 		public void QuoteInvalidQuoteUrlsShouldWork ()
 		{
-			string url      = "http://example.com/?query&foo|bar";
+			string url      = "https://bing.com/?query&foo|bar";
 			var request     = (HttpWebRequest) WebRequest.Create (url);
 			request.Method  = "GET";
 			var response    = (HttpWebResponse) request.GetResponse ();
diff --git a/tests/Mono.Android-Tests/System.Net/SslTest.cs b/tests/Mono.Android-Tests/System.Net/SslTest.cs
index 37662f646e8..934435d52fb 100644
--- a/tests/Mono.Android-Tests/System.Net/SslTest.cs
+++ b/tests/Mono.Android-Tests/System.Net/SslTest.cs
@@ -83,11 +83,24 @@ public void HttpsShouldWork ()
 		void DoHttpsShouldWork ()
 		{
 			// string url = "https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=634817";
-			string url = "https://encrypted.google.com/";
+			string[] urls = new string[]  {
+				"https://dotnet.microsoft.com/",
+				"https://www.bing.com/",
+				"https://httpbin.org/get",
+			};
 			// string url = "http://slashdot.org";
-			HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest) WebRequest.Create(url);
-			request.Method = "GET";
-			var response = (HttpWebResponse) request.GetResponse ();
+			HttpWebResponse response = null;
+			foreach (var url in urls) {
+				HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest) WebRequest.Create(url);
+				request.Method = "GET";
+				response = (HttpWebResponse) request.GetResponse ();
+				if (response.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.TooManyRequests) {
+					// try the next url.
+					continue;
+				}
+				break;
+			}
+			Assert.IsNotNull (response);
 			int len = 0;
 			using (var _r = new StreamReader (response.GetResponseStream ())) {
 				char[] buf = new char [4096];