Re: [squid-users] does squid handle non-HTTP streaming for Windows Media Player?

You can allways look for the udp or tcp ports that the WMP uses and
create a NAT rule on your linux server with ipchains..

* Warren Burstein (warren@actcom.co.il) [010530 11:25]:
> I've got squid 2.2.STABLE1 running on linux 2.2, it works both with web
> browsers and with Windows Media Player, but only on streams that do HTTP
> rollover. Streams that don't rollover to HTTP, don't play. I've managed
> to find out that there are two other protocols, mmsu which uses UDP (first
> it TCP's to port 1755 and negotiates which UDP port to use, but I don't
> have any info about the messages sent over either TCP or UDP), and mmst
> which uses TCP (I'm not sure what ports it uses or what the messages look
> like). Can squid deal with either of these? There is not much
> documentation on these protocols, Microsoft seems not to have released the
> information.
>
> TCP port 1755 is already in Safe_ports in the squid config file, it opens
> 1025-65535.
>
> If not, does anyone know of another program that runs on linux that could
> act as a proxy for WMP streams, or where there might be some documentation
> about the protocols so I could write my own? From dicussions with other
> people who want to access one of the streams, it appears that this isn't
> something that only I need, there are a lot of people who could benefit.
>
> thanks

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