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Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE commented on HDFS-2316:
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In HTTP/1.1 or other programming languages which support case insensitive,
names are case insensitive but string values are case sensitive. Our case is
the same: parameter names are case insensitive and string values (including
paths) are case sensitive.
Case insensitive approaches are designed for inexperienced users. For
experienced users, either way is fine as long as the documentation is clear.
SQL, HTTP and other case insensitive examples like BASIC are all designed for
inexperienced users in order to cover a wider audience. Some may claim that
SQL and HTTP are mess but no one can deny that they are the most popular
standards.
> webhdfs: a complete FileSystem implementation for accessing HDFS over HTTP
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> 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, WebHdfsAPI20111103.pdf
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> 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.
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