Re: newbie how to get url paths of files in HDFS

[Doug Cutting]

Ted Dunning wrote:
Take the fully qualified HDFS path that looks like this:
    hdfs://namenode-host-name:port/file-path

And transform it into this:

    hdfs://namenode-host-name:web-interface-port/data/file-path

The web-interface-port is 50070 by default.  This will allow you to read HDFS 
files via HTTP.

Also, starting in release 0.18.0, Java programs can use "hdfs:" URLs. 
For example, one can create a URLClassLoader for a jar stored in HDFS.

Doug