diff --git a/jetty-quickstart/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/quickstart/AttributeNormalizer.java b/jetty-quickstart/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/quickstart/AttributeNormalizer.java
index 816a23edebe..a3f04f2d6a2 100644
--- a/jetty-quickstart/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/quickstart/AttributeNormalizer.java
+++ b/jetty-quickstart/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/quickstart/AttributeNormalizer.java
@@ -183,6 +183,15 @@ public class AttributeNormalizer
             attributes.add(new PathAttribute("user.dir", "user.dir").weight(6));
             
             Collections.sort(attributes, new PathAttributeComparator());
+
+            if (LOG.isDebugEnabled())
+            {
+                int i = 0;
+                for (PathAttribute attr : attributes)
+                {
+                    LOG.debug(" [{}] {}", i++, attr);
+                }
+            }
         }
         catch (Exception e)
         {
@@ -361,7 +370,8 @@ public class AttributeNormalizer
         {
             if (attr.key.equalsIgnoreCase(property))
             {
-                return attr.path.toUri().toString();
+                // stupid uri abuse to get "file:(scheme-specific-part)"
+                return attr.path.toUri().getRawSchemeSpecificPart();
             }
         }
         
diff --git a/tests/test-quickstart/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/quickstart/AttributeNormalizerTest.java b/tests/test-quickstart/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/quickstart/AttributeNormalizerTest.java
index 4c29556670a..9a4cd0781fb 100644
--- a/tests/test-quickstart/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/quickstart/AttributeNormalizerTest.java
+++ b/tests/test-quickstart/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/quickstart/AttributeNormalizerTest.java
@@ -18,16 +18,18 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jetty.quickstart;
 
-import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.*;
-import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;
-
-import java.io.File;
 import java.net.MalformedURLException;
 import java.net.URI;
 
 import org.eclipse.jetty.util.resource.Resource;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
+import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.anyOf;
+import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.containsString;
+import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.is;
+import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.not;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;
+
 public class AttributeNormalizerTest
 {
     @Test
@@ -54,6 +56,8 @@ public class AttributeNormalizerTest
 
         // Setup example from windows
         String userhome = AttributeNormalizer.uriSeparators(System.getProperty("user.home"));
+        System.err.printf("System.getProperty('user.home') = [%s]%n",System.getProperty("user.home"));
+        System.err.printf("userhome = [%s]%n",userhome);
         String path = "jar:file:" + userhome + "/.m2/repository/something/somejar.jar!/META-INF/some.tld";
 
         String result = normalizer.normalize(path);
diff --git a/tests/test-quickstart/src/test/resources/jetty-logging.properties b/tests/test-quickstart/src/test/resources/jetty-logging.properties
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..731fa831b87
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test-quickstart/src/test/resources/jetty-logging.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.class=org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.StdErrLog
+org.eclipse.jetty.LEVEL=INFO
+org.eclipse.jetty.quickstart.AttributeNormalizer.LEVEL=DEBUG