[HDFS-11222] Document application/octet-stream as required content type for data upload requests in HTTPFS

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Patch Available
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.0-alpha2
• Component/s: documentation, httpfs
• Assignee: Yiqun Lin
• Reporter: Sailesh Patel
• Created: 07/Dec/16 23:18
• Updated: 02/Oct/19 17:15

Description

Documentation at [1] should indicate the PUT and POST requires a command like ( --header ):

curl -i -X PUT -T <LOCAL_FILE> "http://<DATANODE>:<PORT>/webhdfs/v1/<PATH>?op=CREATE..." --header "content-type: application/octet-stream"

[1] https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/stable2/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-hdfs/WebHDFS.html#Create_and_Write_to_a_File

Issue Links

• relates to: HDFS-2705 HttpFS server should check that upload requests have correct content-type