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Alejandro Abdelnur commented on HDFS-2316: ------------------------------------------ scheme & authority are case insensitive by definition. This is well known and expected. However, path & query string are not. Regarding your last example, that is JIRA functionality. And illustrates my point, the fact that 'browse' is case sensitive and 'hdfs' is not it will be confusing. > 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 > Attachments: WebHdfsAPI20111020.pdf > > > 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. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira