[Gllug] Caching youtube videos

[James Holland]

On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 11:47 +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.
> 
> Is there away round this?
> 

I guess you've seen the wiki:
http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples/DynamicContent/YouTube

which says "To cache youtube.com files, you will need to enable caching
of dynamic content and some other measures, which technically break the
HTTP standards."


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