On Sun, Sep 16, 2007, Solomon Asare wrote: > Hi All, > I use Squid Cache: Version 2.6.STABLE5. I realise from > the archives that some work has already been done on > this. Following the previous work/wiki/archives, I am > able to chache some youtube clips but not most. The > limitting factor is not size (Mb), I have that > adequately covered. > > >From the store.log I realise that responses without > valid Dates (-1), last-Modified-Date and Expiry-dates > being in the past are not cached. Meanwhile, I have > ignore-no-cache, overide-expire in my refresh pattern: > refresh_pattern -i \.flv$ 10080 90% > 999999 ignore-no-cache override-expire ignore-private > > Find below 2 lines from the store.log: > 1189970186.851 RELEASE -1 FFFFFFFF > 7E4298A248D7B24F1CADFD910ADFA7EB 200 -1 > -1 1189970173 video/flv 854722/854722 GET > http://74.125.0.37/get_video?video_id=5chdYDbYQAA&origin=lax-v220.lax.youtube.com This is a request from google space. Not sure what this is, i havne't seen ti yet. Its an 800k reply though.. > 1189970472.532 SWAPOUT 00 0000077F > 99B2E186E59B0BE033FDBBF95E1F2D6C 200 1189970437 > 1188577407 -1 video/flv 874083/874083 GET > http://lax-v149.lax.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=ligSwv-MI3U And this is the normal media file which I've documented how to cache. > Are there any configuration parameters that I can use > in overcoming this obstacle? Are there any other > options that I can pursue in caching the youtube > responses? Please help. You're caching some of the youtube responses. Have you actually analysed your squid logs to determine exactly what you should be caching but aren't? Looking at one pair of entries doesn't immediately tell me that its worth caching both.. Adrian