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Alejandro Abdelnur commented on HDFS-2316: ------------------------------------------ Would be OK if this prefix is optional/configurable as well as the capability of running the HTTP HDFS access in the DN in a different port (and by default is with the /webhdfs prefix in the same port as the rest of the HTTP services? > webhdfs: a complete FileSystem implementation for accessing HDFS over HTTP > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-2316 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-2316 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE > Assignee: Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE > > We current have hftp for accessing HDFS over HTTP. However, hftp is a > read-only FileSystem and does not provide "write" accesses. > In HDFS-2284, we propose to have webhdfs for providing a complete FileSystem > implementation for accessing HDFS over HTTP. The is the umbrella JIRA for > the tasks. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira