Re: HTTP addressable files from HDFS?

2009-03-13 Thread jason hadoop
wget http://namenode:port/*data/*filename will return the filename. The namenode will redirect the http request to a datanode that has at least some of the blocks in local storage to serve the actual request. The key piece of course is the /data prefix on the file name. port is the port that the w

HTTP addressable files from HDFS?

2009-03-13 Thread David Michael
Hello I realize that using HTTP, you can have a file in HDFS streamed - that is, the servlet responds to the following request with Content- Disposition: attachment, and a download is forced (at least from a browsers perspective) like so: http://localhost:50075/streamFile?filename=/somewhe