https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Cannot-connect-to-webhdfs/m-p/34836#M55363 The HTTPFS port is 14000 (it serves a WebHDFS protocol also) but the regular non-gateway style WebHDFS serves from the NameNode's port of 50070 (or 50075 on a DN).<BR /><BR />Could you try the below two variants?<BR />1. curl -i "<A href="http://quickstart.cloudera:50070/webhdfs/v1/user/user.name=cloudera&amp;op=GETFILESTATUS&quot;" target="_blank">http://quickstart.cloudera:50070/webhdfs/v1/user/user.name=cloudera&amp;op=GETFILESTATUS"</A><BR />2. curl -i "http://localhost:14000/webhdfs/v1/user/user.name=cloudera&amp;op=GETFILESTATUS"<BR /><BR />Does either of these work? If not, please re-run with curl -v and post the output here. Mon, 07 Dec 2015 04:47:13 GMT Harsh J 2015-12-07T04:47:13Z