I think it's just not implemented, +1 for adding it. Tim
> On May 10, 2016, at 5:52 PM, Michael Gummelt <mgumm...@mesosphere.io> wrote: > > Client mode doesn't seem to support remote JAR downloading, as reported here: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-10643 > > The docs here: > http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/submitting-applications.html don't > mention any client mode restriction to local files, so I'm assuming this is a > bug. Can someone confirm that this is in fact a bug? If so, I'm happy to > submit a PR. > > -- > Michael Gummelt > Software Engineer > Mesosphere