Hi, WebHdfs is a complete FileSystem implementation for accessing HDFS over HTTP. It has a FileSystem implementation (WebHdfsFileSystem, webhdfs://) and a REST API. See HDFS-2316 for more details.
WebHdfs was committed to trunk, 0.20-security branch and 0.20.205 branch. I propose merging it to 0.23. Regards, Tsz-Wo