diff --git a/lib/Cake/Cache/Engine/MemcachedEngine.php b/lib/Cake/Cache/Engine/MemcachedEngine.php
index 331b8a352..d14b5344f 100644
--- a/lib/Cake/Cache/Engine/MemcachedEngine.php
+++ b/lib/Cake/Cache/Engine/MemcachedEngine.php
@@ -185,8 +185,9 @@ class MemcachedEngine extends CacheEngine {
  * @return array Array containing host, port
  */
 	protected function _parseServerString($server) {
-		if (strpos($server, 'unix://') === 0) {
-			return array($server, 0);
+		$socketTransport = 'unix://';
+		if (strpos($server, $socketTransport) === 0) {
+			return array(substr($server, strlen($socketTransport)), 0);
 		}
 		if (substr($server, 0, 1) === '[') {
 			$position = strpos($server, ']:');
diff --git a/lib/Cake/Test/Case/Cache/Engine/MemcachedEngineTest.php b/lib/Cake/Test/Case/Cache/Engine/MemcachedEngineTest.php
index 17f1f9972..823c67f44 100644
--- a/lib/Cake/Test/Case/Cache/Engine/MemcachedEngineTest.php
+++ b/lib/Cake/Test/Case/Cache/Engine/MemcachedEngineTest.php
@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ class MemcachedEngineTest extends CakeTestCase {
 	public function testParseServerStringUnix() {
 		$Memcached = new TestMemcachedEngine();
 		$result = $Memcached->parseServerString('unix:///path/to/memcachedd.sock');
-		$this->assertEquals(array('unix:///path/to/memcachedd.sock', 0), $result);
+		$this->assertEquals(array('/path/to/memcachedd.sock', 0), $result);
 	}
 
 /**