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Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE commented on HDFS-2316: ---------------------------------------------- > 1. versioning Added v1 to the prefix, i.e. the url is http://nn:port/webhdfs/v1/path/to/file?op=... > 2. ranges Since it is optional in the http spec, let's use offset and length query parameters. > 3. params case sensitivity Won't case insensitive parameter names be more user friendly? > 4. permissions format Let's use octal. Handling sticky bit with ls output style is tricky. > 5. protocol scheme to use Do you mean the FileSystem scheme? Webhdfs is using "webhdfs://". I think "http://" is not suitable to be overloaded as a FileSystem scheme. > 6. how to get the create/append handle ... Commented on HDFS-2178. Sorry that I am still updating the doc. > webhdfs: a complete FileSystem implementation for accessing HDFS over HTTP > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > > > 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. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira