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Hadoop HDFS over HTTP - Documentation Sets ${project.version}

  HttpFS is a server that provides a REST HTTP gateway supporting all HDFS
  File System operations (read and write). And it is inteoperable with the
  <<webhdfs>> REST HTTP API.

  HttpFS can be used to transfer data between clusters running different
  versions of Hadoop (overcoming RPC versioning issues), for example using
  Hadoop DistCP.

  HttpFS can be used to access data in HDFS on a cluster behind of a firewall
  (the HttpFS server acts as a gateway and is the only system that is allowed
  to cross the firewall into the cluster).

  HttpFS can be used to access data in HDFS using HTTP utilities (such as curl
  and wget) and HTTP libraries Perl from other languages than Java.

  The <<webhdfs>> client FileSytem implementation can be used to access HttpFS
  using the Hadoop filesystem command (<<<hadoop fs>>>) line tool as well as
  from Java aplications using the Hadoop FileSystem Java API.

  HttpFS has built-in security supporting Hadoop pseudo authentication and
  HTTP SPNEGO Kerberos and other pluggable authentication mechanims. It also
  provides Hadoop proxy user support.

* How Does HttpFS Works?

  HttpFS is a separate service from Hadoop NameNode.

  HttpFS itself is Java web-application and it runs using a preconfigured Tomcat
  bundled with HttpFS binary distribution.

  HttpFS HTTP web-service API calls are HTTP REST calls that map to a HDFS file
  system operation. For example, using the <<<curl>>> Unix command:

  * <<<$ curl http://httpfs-host:14000/webhdfs/v1/user/foo/README.txt>>> returns
  the contents of the HDFS <<</user/foo/README.txt>>> file.

  * <<<$ curl http://httpfs-host:14000/webhdfs/v1/user/foo?op=list>>> returns the
  contents of the HDFS <<</user/foo>>> directory in JSON format.

  * <<<$ curl -X POST http://httpfs-host:14000/webhdfs/v1/user/foo/bar?op=mkdirs>>>
  creates the HDFS <<</user/foo.bar>>> directory.

* How HttpFS and Hadoop HDFS Proxy differ?

  HttpFS was inspired by Hadoop HDFS proxy.

  HttpFS can be seening as a full rewrite of Hadoop HDFS proxy.

  Hadoop HDFS proxy provides a subset of file system operations (read only),
  HttpFS provides support for all file system operations.

  HttpFS uses a clean HTTP REST API making its use with HTTP tools more
  intuitive.

  HttpFS supports Hadoop pseudo authentication, Kerberos SPNEGOS authentication
  and Hadoop proxy users. Hadoop HDFS proxy did not.

* User and Developer Documentation

  * {{{./ServerSetup.html}HttpFS Server Setup}}

  * {{{./UsingHttpTools.html}Using HTTP Tools}}

* Current Limitations

  <<<GETDELEGATIONTOKEN, RENEWDELEGATIONTOKEN and CANCELDELEGATIONTOKEN>>>
  operations are not supported.