Doesn't the WebDAV protocol use http for file transfer, and support reads / writes / listings / etc? Is anyone aware of an OSS web dav library that could be wrapped in a FileSystem implementation?
- Aaron On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Doug Cutting <cutt...@apache.org> wrote: > Derek Young wrote: > >> Reading http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-341 it sounds like >> this should be supported, but the http URLs are not working for me. Are >> http source URLs still supported? >> > > No. They used to be supported, but when distcp was converted to accept any > Path this stopped working, since there is no FileSystem implementation > mapped to http: paths. Implementing an HttpFileSystem that supports > read-only access to files and no directory listings is fairly trivial, but > without directory listings, distcp would not work well. > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1563 includes a now > long-stale patch that implements an HTTP filesystem, where directory > listings are implemented, assuming that: > - directories are represented by slash-terminated urls; > - GET of a directory contains the URLs of its children > This works for the directory listings returned by many HTTP servers. > > Perhaps someone can update this patch, and, if folks find it useful, we can > include it. > > Doug >
