RE: [squid-users] Same Domain Caching

Hi,
--- Dave Raven <dave@raven.za.net> wrote:

> I had considered doing that as well - using a
> redirector to match on
> youtube.com/get_video but then I'll need to save
> those to the disk and
> manage them myself as opposed to using squids
> method. Is there a successful
> use of ETags for something like this / is it worth
> looking at? As I
> understand it that's essentially there point (if
> used correctly) ?
>
> Something else that might be worth looking into (for
> me) is whats after the
> ? - I suppose that if it in some way identifies the
> video I could rewrite
> the url to be the one I know is cache (e.g. the
> first ever request for that)

I used "video_id=xxxxxxxxxxx" to identify the videos.
The id's are unique.

What I did should be in the list archives, you may
search for "Caching Youtube".

Regards,
solomon.

>
> Thanks again for the help
> Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adrian Chadd [mailto:adrian@creative.net.au]
> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 9:38 AM
> To: Dave Raven
> Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] Same Domain Caching
>
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2007, Dave Raven wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > Is there a way to assume that anything under a
> certain domain is
> > similar across servers? For example,
> www.youtube.com videos come from
> > various servers --
> >
> > 1191839044.533 53841 10.10.108.250 TCP_MISS/200
> 1770189 GET
> > http://sjc-v180.sjc.youtube.com/get_video? -
> DIRECT/64.15.120.171
> video/flv
> > 1140
> > 1191917902.678 610481 10.10.100.198 TCP_MISS/200
> 9465378 GET
> > http://v194.youtube.com/get_video? -
> DIRECT/208.65.154.167 video/flv 1068
> >
> > And so on.. if I force caching on video/flv files
> it should make for good
> > caching of the content, but 100 users viewing a
> video could all go to
> > different servers to get it - meaning instead of
> getting 100 hits I get
> 100x
> > the content size in cache?
> >
> > Is there a way around this?
>
> There's been a few attempts at it but noone yet
> seems to have implemented
> what I've suggested. Someone recently posted how he
> does it via log
> post-processing
> and rewriter rules.
>
>
>
>
>
> Adrian
>
>
Received on Mon Oct 22 2007 - 04:32:51 MDT