Hi, --- Dave Raven <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I had considered doing that as well - using a > redirector to match on > youtube.com/get_video but then I'll need to save > those to the disk and > manage them myself as opposed to using squids > method. Is there a successful > use of ETags for something like this / is it worth > looking at? As I > understand it that's essentially there point (if > used correctly) ? > > Something else that might be worth looking into (for > me) is whats after the > ? - I suppose that if it in some way identifies the > video I could rewrite > the url to be the one I know is cache (e.g. the > first ever request for that) I used "video_id=xxxxxxxxxxx" to identify the videos. The id's are unique. What I did should be in the list archives, you may search for "Caching Youtube". Regards, solomon. > > Thanks again for the help > Dave > > -----Original Message----- > From: Adrian Chadd [mailto:adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 9:38 AM > To: Dave Raven > Cc: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Same Domain Caching > > On Mon, Oct 22, 2007, Dave Raven wrote: > > Hi all, > > Is there a way to assume that anything under a > certain domain is > > similar across servers? For example, > www.youtube.com videos come from > > various servers -- > > > > 1191839044.533 53841 10.10.108.250 TCP_MISS/200 > 1770189 GET > > http://sjc-v180.sjc.youtube.com/get_video? - > DIRECT/64.15.120.171 > video/flv > > 1140 > > 1191917902.678 610481 10.10.100.198 TCP_MISS/200 > 9465378 GET > > http://v194.youtube.com/get_video? - > DIRECT/208.65.154.167 video/flv 1068 > > > > And so on.. if I force caching on video/flv files > it should make for good > > caching of the content, but 100 users viewing a > video could all go to > > different servers to get it - meaning instead of > getting 100 hits I get > 100x > > the content size in cache? > > > > Is there a way around this? > > There's been a few attempts at it but noone yet > seems to have implemented > what I've suggested. Someone recently posted how he > does it via log > post-processing > and rewriter rules. > > > > > > Adrian > >
