[Gllug] Caching youtube videos

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Thu Oct 2 20:22:49 UTC 2008


On 29 Sep 2008, Stephen Nelson-Smith stated:

> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Adrian McMenamin
> <adrian at newgolddream.dyndns.info> wrote:
>
>> But that question mark means that Squid won't cache it
>
> That has nothing to do with it at all.
>
> Squid doesn't cache dynamic content out of the box.  You need to make
> it.  Youtube also make life difficult in ways which Squid doesn't
> handle out of the box.  This is well documented on the squid wiki.

Of course this just goes to show that you should be using Polipo instead
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