RE: [squid-users] Youtube and BBC iPlayer

On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:47:45 +0000, "J. Webster"
<webster_jack_at_hotmail.com>
wrote:
> Many of these video sites are starting to use RTMP, which is causing a
> problem for proxy servers.
> Do you know of anyway to reroute port 1935 through the proxy server or
to
> somehow catch the RTMP protocol and redirect it?

RTMP has an RTMP-over-HTTP capability if the player and/or server support
it.

Interception like HTTP can be captured is not possible with any of the
current Squid.

Squid 3.1 brings full ICY protocol support. The other media types are more
difficult to support.

Amos

>
> ----------------------------------------
>> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:19:09 +1300
>> From: squid3_at_treenet.co.nz
>> To: squid-users_at_squid-cache.org
>> Subject: Re: [squid-users] Youtube and BBC iPlayer
>>
>> twinturbo_at_f2s.com wrote:
>>> Our bandwidth is been eaten by teachers showing Youtube and BBC
iPlayer,
>>>
>>> Is there a way to get S3.0.19 to effectivly cache this content?
>>>
>>
>> I'm not sure about iPlayer.
>>
>> YouTube is cachable by removing the default rules blocking dynamic
stuff
>> being cached. The storeurl feature from 2.7 designed to reduce
>> duplicates is not available in 3.0, so the benefit is not great there.
>>
>> If it is a big problem, I'd suggest going to 2.7 and using the FAQ
>> config examples about YouTube until we have that feature ported.
>> Or sponsoring someone to do the port for you :) it's not huge.
>>
>> Amos
>> --
>> Please be using
>> Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE8 or 3.0.STABLE24
>> Current Beta Squid 3.1.0.17
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Received on Thu Mar 11 2010 - 00:31:50 MST