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Sanjay Radia commented on HDFS-2316:
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> ... embedding byte-ranges in the URL itself.
This was the implementation a few days ago, It was changed to use content
range header - fairly standard and it likely allow other tools to works
seamlessly.
> 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
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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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