diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index f591e9cb07f..0c86051eb53 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -54,6 +54,9 @@ Release 2.0.5-beta - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-4544. Error in deleting blocks should not do check disk, for
     all types of errors. (Arpit Agarwal via suresh)
 
+    HDFS-4565. Use DFSUtil.getSpnegoKeytabKey() to get the spnego keytab key
+    in secondary namenode and namenode http server. (Arpit Gupta via suresh)
+
 Release 2.0.4-alpha - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/NameNodeHttpServer.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/NameNodeHttpServer.java
index 51a3bb78fb9..32e9fd15f05 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/NameNodeHttpServer.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/NameNodeHttpServer.java
@@ -113,11 +113,8 @@ public class NameNodeHttpServer {
                     DFSConfigKeys.DFS_WEB_AUTHENTICATION_KERBEROS_PRINCIPAL_KEY +
                     "' is not set.");
         }
-        String httpKeytab = conf.get(
-          DFSConfigKeys.DFS_WEB_AUTHENTICATION_KERBEROS_KEYTAB_KEY);
-        if (httpKeytab == null) {
-          httpKeytab = conf.get(DFSConfigKeys.DFS_NAMENODE_KEYTAB_FILE_KEY);
-        }
+        String httpKeytab = conf.get(DFSUtil.getSpnegoKeytabKey(conf,
+            DFSConfigKeys.DFS_NAMENODE_KEYTAB_FILE_KEY));
         if (httpKeytab != null && !httpKeytab.isEmpty()) {
           params.put(
             DFSConfigKeys.DFS_WEB_AUTHENTICATION_KERBEROS_KEYTAB_KEY,
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/SecondaryNameNode.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/SecondaryNameNode.java
index 1311e95a9fa..16c12608909 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/SecondaryNameNode.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/namenode/SecondaryNameNode.java
@@ -255,15 +255,11 @@ public class SecondaryNameNode implements Runnable {
                                 new AccessControlList(conf.get(DFS_ADMIN, " "))) {
       {
         if (UserGroupInformation.isSecurityEnabled()) {
-          String httpKeytabKey = DFSConfigKeys.
-              DFS_WEB_AUTHENTICATION_KERBEROS_KEYTAB_KEY;
-          if (null == conf.get(httpKeytabKey)) {
-            httpKeytabKey = DFSConfigKeys.DFS_SECONDARY_NAMENODE_KEYTAB_FILE_KEY;
-          }
           initSpnego(
               conf,
               DFSConfigKeys.DFS_SECONDARY_NAMENODE_INTERNAL_SPNEGO_USER_NAME_KEY,
-              httpKeytabKey);
+              DFSUtil.getSpnegoKeytabKey(conf,
+                  DFSConfigKeys.DFS_SECONDARY_NAMENODE_KEYTAB_FILE_KEY));
         }
       }
     };