[Gllug] Caching youtube videos

Alain Williams addw at phcomp.co.uk
Sat Sep 27 22:44:11 UTC 2008


On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 11:47:05AM +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> Youtube treat all their content as though it was dynamic - eg a url
> comes out like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=295U9E5aC54
> 
> But that question mark means that Squid won't cache it - unless, afaics,
> I allow squid to cache real dynamic content which would be A Bad Thing.

No, the ? has nothing to do with caching it is the
	Cache-Control: no-cache
that is returned in the header.

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