diff --git a/jetty-server/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/server/handler/ResourceHandlerTest.java b/jetty-server/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/server/handler/ResourceHandlerTest.java
index 9e5745b7e0a..5dd6aa28765 100644
--- a/jetty-server/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/server/handler/ResourceHandlerTest.java
+++ b/jetty-server/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/server/handler/ResourceHandlerTest.java
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 
 package org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler;
 
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileInputStream;
 import java.io.FileOutputStream;
@@ -25,6 +26,8 @@ import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.net.Socket;
 import java.net.URI;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
 
 import org.eclipse.jetty.server.Connector;
 import org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConfiguration;
@@ -43,12 +46,12 @@ import org.junit.Test;
 
 /**
  * Resource Handler test
- *
+ * 
  * TODO: increase the testing going on here
  */
 public class ResourceHandlerTest
 {
-	private static final String LN = System.getProperty("line.separator");
+    private static String LN = System.getProperty("line.separator");
     private static Server _server;
     private static HttpConfiguration _config;
     private static ServerConnector _connector;
@@ -60,29 +63,56 @@ public class ResourceHandlerTest
     {
         File dir = MavenTestingUtils.getTargetFile("test-classes/simple");
         File huge = new File(dir,"huge.txt");
-        File big=new File(dir,"big.txt");
-        try (OutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(huge)) {
-            for (int i=0;i<100;i++)
+        File big = new File(dir,"big.txt");
+        try (OutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(huge))
+        {
+            for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++)
             {
-                try (InputStream in=new FileInputStream(big))
+                try (InputStream in = new FileInputStream(big))
                 {
                     IO.copy(in,out);
                 }
             }
         }
         huge.deleteOnExit();
-        
+
+        // determine how the SCM of choice checked out the big.txt EOL
+        // we can't just use whatever is the OS default.
+        // because, for example, a windows system using git can be configured for EOL handling using
+        // local, remote, file lists, patterns, etc, rendering assumptions about the OS EOL choice
+        // wrong for unit tests.
+        LN = System.getProperty("line.separator");
+        try (BufferedReader reader = Files.newBufferedReader(big.toPath(),StandardCharsets.UTF_8))
+        {
+            // a buffer large enough to capture at least 1 EOL
+            char cbuf[] = new char[128];
+            reader.read(cbuf);
+            String sample = new String(cbuf);
+            if (sample.contains("\r\n"))
+            {
+                LN = "\r\n";
+            }
+            else if (sample.contains("\n\r"))
+            {
+                LN = "\n\r";
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                LN = "\n";
+            }
+        }
+
         _server = new Server();
-        _config=new HttpConfiguration();
+        _config = new HttpConfiguration();
         _config.setOutputBufferSize(2048);
         _connector = new ServerConnector(_server,new HttpConnectionFactory(_config));
-        
+
         _server.setConnectors(new Connector[] { _connector });
 
         _resourceHandler = new ResourceHandler();
         _resourceHandler.setMinAsyncContentLength(4096);
         _resourceHandler.setMinMemoryMappedContentLength(8192);
-        
+
         _resourceHandler.setResourceBase(MavenTestingUtils.getTargetFile("test-classes/simple").getAbsolutePath());
 
         _contextHandler = new ContextHandler("/resource");
@@ -96,7 +126,7 @@ public class ResourceHandlerTest
     {
         _server.stop();
     }
-    
+
     @Before
     public void before()
     {
@@ -107,45 +137,44 @@ public class ResourceHandlerTest
     public void testMissing() throws Exception
     {
         SimpleRequest sr = new SimpleRequest(new URI("http://localhost:" + _connector.getLocalPort()));
-        Assert.assertNotNull("missing jetty.css" , sr.getString("/resource/jetty-dir.css"));
+        Assert.assertNotNull("missing jetty.css",sr.getString("/resource/jetty-dir.css"));
     }
-    
+
     @Test
     public void testSimple() throws Exception
     {
         SimpleRequest sr = new SimpleRequest(new URI("http://localhost:" + _connector.getLocalPort()));
-        Assert.assertEquals("simple text", sr.getString("/resource/simple.txt"));
+        Assert.assertEquals("simple text",sr.getString("/resource/simple.txt"));
     }
 
-    
     @Test
     public void testBigFile() throws Exception
     {
         _config.setOutputBufferSize(2048);
         SimpleRequest sr = new SimpleRequest(new URI("http://localhost:" + _connector.getLocalPort()));
-        String response=sr.getString("/resource/big.txt");
+        String response = sr.getString("/resource/big.txt");
         Assert.assertThat(response,Matchers.startsWith("     1\tThis is a big file"));
-        Assert.assertThat(response,Matchers.endsWith("   400\tThis is a big file"+LN));
+        Assert.assertThat(response,Matchers.endsWith("   400\tThis is a big file" + LN));
     }
-    
+
     @Test
     public void testBigFileBigBuffer() throws Exception
     {
-        _config.setOutputBufferSize(16*1024);
+        _config.setOutputBufferSize(16 * 1024);
         SimpleRequest sr = new SimpleRequest(new URI("http://localhost:" + _connector.getLocalPort()));
-        String response=sr.getString("/resource/big.txt");
+        String response = sr.getString("/resource/big.txt");
         Assert.assertThat(response,Matchers.startsWith("     1\tThis is a big file"));
-        Assert.assertThat(response,Matchers.endsWith("   400\tThis is a big file"+LN));
+        Assert.assertThat(response,Matchers.endsWith("   400\tThis is a big file" + LN));
     }
-    
+
     @Test
     public void testBigFileLittleBuffer() throws Exception
     {
         _config.setOutputBufferSize(8);
         SimpleRequest sr = new SimpleRequest(new URI("http://localhost:" + _connector.getLocalPort()));
-        String response=sr.getString("/resource/big.txt");
+        String response = sr.getString("/resource/big.txt");
         Assert.assertThat(response,Matchers.startsWith("     1\tThis is a big file"));
-        Assert.assertThat(response,Matchers.endsWith("   400\tThis is a big file"+LN));
+        Assert.assertThat(response,Matchers.endsWith("   400\tThis is a big file" + LN));
     }
 
     @Test
@@ -157,8 +186,8 @@ public class ResourceHandlerTest
             Thread.sleep(1000);
             String response = IO.toString(socket.getInputStream());
             Assert.assertThat(response,Matchers.startsWith("HTTP/1.1 200 OK"));
-            Assert.assertThat(response,Matchers.containsString("   400\tThis is a big file"+LN+"     1\tThis is a big file"));
-            Assert.assertThat(response,Matchers.endsWith("   400\tThis is a big file"+LN));
+            Assert.assertThat(response,Matchers.containsString("   400\tThis is a big file" + LN + "     1\tThis is a big file"));
+            Assert.assertThat(response,Matchers.endsWith("   400\tThis is a big file" + LN));
         }
     }
 }