[ARROW-7594] [C++] Implement HTTP and FTP file systems

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.15.1
• Fix Version/s: 12.0.0
• Component/s: C++
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/23849
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ben Kietzman
• Created: 16/Jan/20 19:07
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:54

Description

It'd be handy to have (probably read only) a generic filesystem implementation which wrapped any cURLable base url:

ARROW_ASSIGN_OR_RAISE(auto fs, HttpFileSystem::Make("https://some.site/json-api/v3"));
ASSERT_OK_AND_ASSIGN(auto json_stream, fs->OpenInputStream("slug"));
// ...

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: ARROW-14998 [R] Support for HTTPS Filesystem access
• is duplicated by: ARROW-16619 [R] Support compression + R connection (URL with .gz file)