Figured it out.  I wasn't actually querying WebHDFS as I thought, I was hitting 
HttpFS.  It wasn't immediately obvious to me from the 1.0.4 documentation that 
they were separate interfaces, and the initial HTTP request did appear to be 
working correctly against the wrong server, which added to my confusion.

Sorry for the spam.
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From: Jess Sheneberger
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 2:41 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: WebHDFS REST API errors

I'm using hadoop and hdfs 1.0.4.  I'm making requests to the WebHDFS service 
and getting some error responses in HTML--is there a way to configure this to 
send JSON error responses?

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