hadoop/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-httpfs
Allen Wittenauer 828429dec1 HDFS-7232. Populate hostname in httpfs audit log (Zoran Dimitrijevic via aw) 2014-10-23 14:06:19 -07:00
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dev-support HDFS-3513. HttpFS should cache filesystems. (tucu) 2012-08-01 23:09:19 +00:00
src HDFS-7232. Populate hostname in httpfs audit log (Zoran Dimitrijevic via aw) 2014-10-23 14:06:19 -07:00
README.txt HDFS-2178. Contributing Hoop to HDFS, replacement for HDFS proxy with read/write capabilities. (tucu) 2011-12-08 19:25:28 +00:00
pom.xml HADOOP-10400. Incorporate new S3A FileSystem implementation. Contributed by Jordan Mendelson and Dave Wang. 2014-09-15 08:27:07 -07:00

README.txt

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HttpFS - Hadoop HDFS over HTTP

HttpFS is a server that provides a REST HTTP gateway to HDFS with full
filesystem read & write capabilities.

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.
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