diff --git a/testing/get-swift.sh b/testing/get-swift.sh
index 54a37e58..28986a5f 100755
--- a/testing/get-swift.sh
+++ b/testing/get-swift.sh
@@ -1,26 +1,27 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 # This is a script used in travis-ci to install swift
-set -ex
+set -euxo pipefail
 
 . /etc/lsb-release
 if [ "$DISTRIB_CODENAME" = "trusty" ]; then
-    SWIFT_TARBALL="swift-4.0.3-RELEASE-ubuntu14.04.tar.gz"
+    SWIFT_URL='https://swift.org/builds/swift-4.0.3-release/ubuntu1404/swift-4.0.3-RELEASE/swift-4.0.3-RELEASE-ubuntu14.04.tar.gz'
     SWIFT_HASH="dddb40ec4956e4f6a3f4532d859691d5d1ba8822f6e8b4ec6c452172dbede5ae"
-    SWIFT_URL="https://swift.org/builds/swift-4.0.3-release/ubuntu1404/swift-4.0.3-RELEASE/$SWIFT_TARBALL"
 else
-    SWIFT_TARBALL="swift-4.0.3-RELEASE-ubuntu16.04.tar.gz"
+    SWIFT_URL='https://swift.org/builds/swift-4.0.3-release/ubuntu1604/swift-4.0.3-RELEASE/swift-4.0.3-RELEASE-ubuntu16.04.tar.gz'
     SWIFT_HASH="9adf64cabc7c02ea2d08f150b449b05e46bd42d6e542bf742b3674f5c37f0dbf"
-    SWIFT_URL="https://swift.org/builds/swift-4.0.3-release/ubuntu1604/swift-4.0.3-RELEASE/$SWIFT_TARBALL"
 fi
 
-mkdir -p "$HOME"/.swift
-pushd "$HOME"/.swift
-    wget -N -c "$SWIFT_URL"
-    echo "$SWIFT_HASH  $SWIFT_TARBALL" > hash.txt
-    shasum -a 256 -c hash.txt
-popd
+check() {
+    echo "$SWIFT_HASH  $TGZ" | sha256sum --check
+}
+
+TGZ="$HOME/.swift/swift.tar.gz"
+mkdir -p "$(dirname "$TGZ")"
+if ! check >& /dev/null; then
+    rm -f "$TGZ"
+    curl --location --silent --output "$TGZ" "$SWIFT_URL"
+    check
+fi
 
 mkdir -p /tmp/swift
-pushd /tmp/swift
-    tar -xf "$HOME"/.swift/"$SWIFT_TARBALL" --strip 1
-popd
+tar -xf "$TGZ" --strip 1 --directory /tmp/swift