diff --git a/minimal-examples/dbus-client/minimal-dbus-ws-proxy-testclient/minimal-dbus-ws-proxy-testclient.c b/minimal-examples/dbus-client/minimal-dbus-ws-proxy-testclient/minimal-dbus-ws-proxy-testclient.c
index 051bae717..e237ab24a 100644
--- a/minimal-examples/dbus-client/minimal-dbus-ws-proxy-testclient/minimal-dbus-ws-proxy-testclient.c
+++ b/minimal-examples/dbus-client/minimal-dbus-ws-proxy-testclient/minimal-dbus-ws-proxy-testclient.c
@@ -259,11 +259,20 @@ bail:
 static int
 remote_method_call(struct lws_dbus_ctx_wsproxy_client *dcwc)
 {
-	const char *uri = "wss://libwebsockets.org/?mirror=dbt";
-	const char *subprotocol = "lws-mirror-protocol";
+	char _uri[96];
+	const char *subprotocol = "lws-mirror-protocol", *uri = _uri;
 	DBusMessage *msg;
 	int ret = 1;
 
+	/*
+	 * make our own private mirror session... because others may run this
+	 * at the same time against libwebsockets.org... as happened 2019-03-14
+	 * and broke travis tests :-)
+	 */
+
+	lws_snprintf(_uri, sizeof(_uri), "wss://libwebsockets.org/?mirror=dbt-%d",
+			(int)getpid());
+
 	msg = dbus_message_new_method_call(
 			/* dest */	  THIS_BUSNAME,
 			/* object-path */ THIS_OBJECT,