Re: Caching Pandora

[Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jason Spegal wrote:
> I would wager it's content control given what they are. However with 
> violations on they can be cached. Without they cannot. I just haven't 
> been able to figure out how to get squid to behave with violations 
> turned on. My only other option I can see is to setup a second squid 
> with violations and filter all the traffic to/from Pandora through it.

Use refresh_pattern with a regex that only matches pandora URL.

I'll wager you have either added all the overrides to the . pattern, or 
have a overly-greedy regex in use.

Amos

> Adrian Chadd wrote:
> > This doesn't surprise me. They may be trying to maximise outbound
> > bits, or try to retain control over content, or not understanding
> > caching, or all/combination of the above.
> >
> > I'd suggest contacting them and asking.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > adrian
> >
> > 2009/7/26 Jason Spegal <jspegal@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >  
> > > A little bit messy but here are some snippets.
> > >
> > > ###Access.log
> > >
> > > 1248572380.275    178 10.10.122.248 TCP_REFRESH_UNMODIFIED/304 232 GET
> > > http://images-sjl-1.pandora.com/images/public/amz/1/2/0/4/727361124021_500W_495H.jpg 
> > >
> > > - DIRECT/208.85.40.13 -
> > > 1248572409.144   8472 10.10.122.241 TCP_MISS/200 1581181 GET
> > > http://audio-sjl-t3-2.pandora.com/access/7008639604707703825.mp4? -
> > > DIRECT/208.85.41.38 application/octet-stream
> > > 1248572439.512     94 10.10.122.241 TCP_MEM_HIT/200 55396 GET
> > > http://images-sjl-2.pandora.com/images/public/amz/3/0/2/3/602498413203_500W_499H.jpg 
> > >
> > > - NONE/- image/jpeg
> > > 1248572570.898    300 10.10.122.248 TCP_MISS/200 6521 GET
> > > http://images-sjl-3.pandora.com/images/public/amz/2/2/4/4/039841434422_130W_130H.jpg 
> > >
> > > - DIRECT/208.85.41.23 image/jpeg
> > > 1248572600.538  29937 10.10.122.248 TCP_MISS/200 7704188 GET
> > > http://audio-sjl-t3-2.pandora.com/access/3642267922875646389.mp3? -
> > > DIRECT/208.85.41.38 application/octet-stream
> > > 1248572615.735  11507 10.10.122.241 TCP_MISS/200 2109481 GET
> > > http://audio-sjl-t2-2.pandora.com/access/5722981497105294607.mp4? -
> > > DIRECT/208.85.41.36 application/octet-stream
> > > 1248572635.903    179 10.10.122.248 TCP_REFRESH_UNMODIFIED/304 232 GET
> > > http://images-sjl-3.pandora.com/images/public/amz/2/2/4/4/039841434422_130W_130H.jpg 
> > >
> > > - DIRECT/208.85.41.23 -
> > > 1248572641.444     40 10.10.122.241 TCP_HIT/200 21616 GET
> > > http://images-sjl-2.pandora.com/images/public/amz/8/7/6/1/602498611678_300W_273H.jpg 
> > >
> > > - NONE/- image/jpeg
> > >
> > > ###Store.log
> > >
> > > 1248572380.275 RELEASE -1 FFFFFFFF 097EAE1108DCEF192ED1C3BFF1F6C1B5  304
> > > 1248572380        -1        -1 unknown -1/0 GET
> > > http://images-sjl-1.pandora.com/images/public/amz/1/2/0/4/727361124021_500W_495H.jpg 
> > >
> > > 1248572409.144 RELEASE -1 FFFFFFFF 6B93B1BF958703B3FC3CD1ADDD515695  200
> > > 1248572400        -1 1248572400 application/octet-stream 
> > > 1580815/1580815 GET
> > > http://audio-sjl-t3-2.pandora.com/access/7008639604707703825.mp4?
> > > 1248572570.897 SWAPOUT 00 0004CF23 BEEE111A39B596B14903743011AF2C36  200
> > > 1248572570 1248490006        -1 image/jpeg 6181/6181 GET
> > > http://images-sjl-3.pandora.com/images/public/amz/2/2/4/4/039841434422_130W_130H.jpg 
> > >
> > > 1248572600.538 RELEASE -1 FFFFFFFF 070416ED935AD18DCA793569D2C6A652  200
> > > 1248572570        -1 1248572570 application/octet-stream 
> > > 7703822/7703822 GET
> > > http://audio-sjl-t3-2.pandora.com/access/3642267922875646389.mp3?
> > > 1248572615.735 RELEASE -1 FFFFFFFF B0EB42B39131DF028BA3BE9A39CC24E4  200
> > > 1248572604        -1 1248572604 application/octet-stream 
> > > 2109115/2109115 GET
> > > http://audio-sjl-t2-2.pandora.com/access/5722981497105294607.mp4?
> > > 1248572635.903 RELEASE -1 FFFFFFFF CDCA0D3510080D121E5578310976676E  304
> > > 1248572635        -1        -1 unknown -1/0 GET
> > > http://images-sjl-3.pandora.com/images/public/amz/2/2/4/4/039841434422_130W_130H.jpg 
> > >
> > > 1248572886.822 RELEASE -1 FFFFFFFF A95C86074129546301911C2FC251071D  200
> > > 1248572872        -1 1248572872 application/octet-stream 
> > > 2086824/2086824 GET
> > > http://audio-sjl-t1-1.pandora.com/access/5188159311574708305.mp4?
> > >
> > > ###Wireshark
> > >
> > > Hypertext Transfer Protocol
> > > HTTP/1.0 200 OK\r\n
> > > Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 05:12:58 GMT\r\n
> > > Server: Apache\r\n
> > > Content-Length: 6137729\r\n
> > > Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate, max-age=-1\r\n
> > > Pragma: no-cache, no-store\r\n
> > > Expires: -1\r\n
> > > Content-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n
> > > X-Cache: MISS from ichiban\r\n
> > > X-Cache-Lookup: MISS from ichiban:3128\r\n
> > > Via: 1.0 ichiban (squid)\r\n
> > > Proxy-Connection: keep-alive\r\n
> > > \r\n
> > >
> > > mos Jeffries wrote:
> > >    
> > > > Jason Spegal wrote:
> > > >      
> > > > > I was able to cache Pandora by compiling with --enable-http-violations
> > > > > and using a refresh_pattern to cache everything regardless. This 
> > > > > however
> > > > > broke everything by preventing proper refreshing of any site. If it 
> > > > > could be
> > > > > worked where violations only happened as directly specified in the
> > > > > configuration it would be a workable solution. I did some testing 
> > > > > and I
> > > > > could not confirm that it was anything in the configuration file 
> > > > > itself that
> > > > > was causing the issue. I wouldn't recommend using this as such.
> > > > >
> > > > >         
> > > > Which indicates that there are fine tuning possible to cache just 
> > > > Pandora.
> > > > Find yoursef one of the Pandora URLs in your access.log and take a 
> > > > visit to
> > > > www.redbot.org or the ircache.org cacheability engine.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Amos
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >      
> > > > > Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> > > > >        
> > > > > > lör 2009-07-25 klockan 12:05 -0600 skrev Brett Glass:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >          
> > > > > > > One of the largest consumers of our HTTP bandwidth is Pandora, 
> > > > > > > the free
> > > > > > > music service. Unfortunately, Pandora marks its streams as 
> > > > > > > non-cacheable and
> > > > > > > also puts question marks in the URLs, which is a huge waste of 
> > > > > > > bandwidth.
> > > > > > > How can this be overridden?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >             
> > > > > > The questionmark can be ignored. See the "cache" directive. But if 
> > > > > > there
> > > > > > is other parameters behind there (normally not logged) that just 
> > > > > > may not
> > > > > > help..
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Regarding non-cacheable.. most crap can be overridden by
> > > > > > refresh_pattern.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > But, if it's a streaming service (I know nothing about Pandora) 
> > > > > > then you
> > > > > > are quite likely out of luck.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Regards
> > > > > > Henrik
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >           
> > > >       
> > >     


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