Squid and Youtube/Google Video

[glio]

Environment: Squid 2.5 STABLE9 running on FC4

When my workstations try to access YouTube or Google Video... etc, the Squid seems to cache all the video first before presenting to the workstations. What do I need to do if I want my workstations to play the video on loading.

Jimmy

 

[pansophic]

The obvious answer is to not allow SQUID to cache the requests.

Cut directly from the SQUID FAQ:

7.8 How can I make Squid NOT cache some servers or URLs?
In Squid-2, you use the no_cache option to specify uncachable requests. For example, this makes all responses from origin servers in the 10.0.1.0/24 network uncachable:

        acl Local dst 10.0.1.0/24
        no_cache deny Local

This example makes all URL's with '.html' uncachable:

        acl HTML url_regex .html$
        no_cache deny HTML

This example makes a specific URL uncachable:

        acl XYZZY url_regex ^[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.i.suck.com/foo.html$[/URL]
        no_cache deny XYZZY

This example caches nothing between the hours of 8AM to 11AM:
acl Morning time 08:00-11:00
no_cache deny Morning

In Squid-1.1, whether or not an object gets cached is controlled by the cache_stoplist, and cache_stoplist_pattern options. So, you may add:
cache_stoplist my.domain.com

Specifying uncachable objects by IP address is harder. The 1.1 patch page includes a patch called no-cache-local.patch which changes the behaviour of the local_ip and local_domain so that matching requests are NOT CACHED, in addition to being fetched directly.

located at:

http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-7.html

pansophic

 

[glio]

Hmm... that's one way out... do you think we can have a better solution? One that combines the two so that the first workstation accessing the video can play the video thru streaming while the Squid is caching the same video?

Jimmy

 

[QatQat]

If you want one worksatation to get the video bypassing squid, squid will not cache it for any other.

QatQat

Life is what happens when you are making other plans.

 

[gbaughma]

acl Morning time 08:00-11:00
no_cache deny Morning

Hmmm... or is that....

acl Morning time 08:00-09:00
no_coffee deny Work




Just my 2¢

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