diff --git a/tests/gold_tests/pluginTest/s3_auth/gold/s3_auth_parsing.gold b/tests/gold_tests/pluginTest/s3_auth/gold/s3_auth_parsing.gold
deleted file mode 100644
index 2303e2859a8..00000000000
--- a/tests/gold_tests/pluginTest/s3_auth/gold/s3_auth_parsing.gold
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-*   Trying 127.0.0.1:``...
-* Connected to 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) port `` (#0)
-> GET /s3-bucket HTTP/1.1
-> Host: www.example.com
-> User-Agent: curl/``
-> Accept: */*
-> 
-* Mark bundle as not supporting multiuse
-< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
-< Content-Length: 8
-< Date: ``
-< Age: ``
-< Connection: keep-alive
-< Server: ``
-< 
-{ [8 bytes data]
-* Connection #0 to host 127.0.0.1 left intact
diff --git a/tests/gold_tests/pluginTest/s3_auth/s3_auth_config.test.py b/tests/gold_tests/pluginTest/s3_auth/s3_auth_config.test.py
index 5523ff63ad6..ffcdc3bc341 100644
--- a/tests/gold_tests/pluginTest/s3_auth/s3_auth_config.test.py
+++ b/tests/gold_tests/pluginTest/s3_auth/s3_auth_config.test.py
@@ -59,7 +59,8 @@
 tr.Processes.Default.ReturnCode = 0
 tr.Processes.Default.StartBefore(server)
 tr.Processes.Default.StartBefore(ts)
-tr.Processes.Default.Streams.stderr = "gold/s3_auth_parsing.gold"
+tr.Processes.Default.Streams.stderr.Content = Testers.ContainsExpression("200 OK", "expected 200 response")
+tr.Processes.Default.Streams.stderr.Content += Testers.ContainsExpression("Content-Length: 8", "expected content-length 8")
 tr.StillRunningAfter = server
 
 ts.Disk.traffic_out.Content = "gold/s3_auth_parsing_ts.gold"