[HADOOP-7729] Send back valid HTTP response if user hits IPC port with HTTP GET

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.23.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0-alpha
• Component/s: ipc
• Target Version/s: 0.23.3
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Todd Lipcon
• Reporter: Todd Lipcon
• Created: 09/Oct/11 04:50
• Updated: 23/Apr/19 17:10
• Resolved: 14/Oct/11 21:45

Description

Often, I've seen users get confused between the IPC ports and HTTP ports for a daemon. It would be easy for us to detect when an HTTP GET request hits an IPC port, and instead of sending back garbage, we can send back a valid HTTP response explaining their mistake.