Many folks running Apache Hadoop releases run into Jetty related issues. Some fixes to Jetty alleviates this problem. See Todd's comment: See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-2980?focusedCommentId=13291112&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-13291112
I propose making this available to Apache Hadoop by: # Hosting the code in shared github repository and publishing the artifacts built to maven central # Update the Apache Hadoop to use the Jetty jars with fixes. Feedback welcome. Regards, Suresh