Replace HFTP/HSFTP with plain HTTP/HTTPS
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Key: HADOOP-5010
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-5010
Project: Hadoop Core
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: contrib/hdfsproxy
Affects Versions: 0.18.0
Reporter: Marco Nicosia
In HADOOP-1563, [~cutting] wrote:
bq. The URI for this should be something like hftp://host:port/a/b/c, since,
while HTTP will be used as the transport, this will not be a FileSystem for
arbitrary HTTP urls.
Recently, we've been talking about implementing an HDFS proxy (HADOOP-4575)
which would be a secure way to make HFTP/HSFTP available. In so doing, we may
even remove HFTP/HSFTP from being offered on the HDFS itself (that's another
discussion).
In the case of the HDFS proxy, does it make sense to do away with the
artificial HFTP/HSFTP protocols, and instead simply offer standard HTTP and
HTTPS? That would allow non-HDFS-specific clients, as well as using various
standard HTTP infrastructure, such as load balancers, etc.
NB, to the best of my knowledge, HFTP is only documented on the
[distcp|http://hadoop.apache.org/core/docs/current/distcp.html] page, and HSFTP
is not documented at all?
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