diff --git a/maven-wrapper/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/wrapper/DefaultDownloader.java b/maven-wrapper/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/wrapper/DefaultDownloader.java
index 79a2ae25e8..7332cedb43 100644
--- a/maven-wrapper/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/wrapper/DefaultDownloader.java
+++ b/maven-wrapper/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/wrapper/DefaultDownloader.java
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ private void addBasicAuthentication(URI address, URLConnection connection) throw
         return;
     }
     if (!"https".equals(address.getScheme())) {
-       Logger.info("WARNING Using HTTP Basic Authentication over an insecure connection to download the Maven distribution. Please consider using HTTPS.");
+       Logger.warn("WARNING Using HTTP Basic Authentication over an insecure connection to download the Maven distribution. Please consider using HTTPS.");
     }
     connection.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "Basic " + base64Encode(userInfo));
   }
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ private String base64Encode(String userInfo) {
               Method encodeMethod = loader.loadClass("javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter").getMethod("printBase64Binary", byte[].class);
               return (String) encodeMethod.invoke(null, new Object[]{userInfo.getBytes("UTF-8")});
           } catch (Exception java5OrEarlier) {
-              throw new RuntimeException("Downloading Maven   distributions with HTTP Basic Authentication is not supported on your JVM.", java5OrEarlier);
+              throw new RuntimeException("Downloading Maven distributions with HTTP Basic Authentication is not supported on your JVM.", java5OrEarlier);
           }
       }
   }