Re: [squid-users] Possible to cache linked content?

From: Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 16:20:11 +1200

Scott Oyer wrote:
> Good afternoon,
>
> I will preface this by saying I am a real newbie to squid -- but not linux.
>
> We provide approved/safe video hosting to school districts. One of our
> sales points is that we can provide approved links to youtube videos. Most
> school district block youtube. We have recently run into a few filters
> that are allowing our pages to be displayed (as we are on their filters
> white list) but block the linked video because it is actually originating
> from youtube and not our servers. I have been give the job of making this
> work.
>
> Since the link itself is on our site would it be possible to have our
> system cache the video when the user clicks play and have it come from our
> domain instead of another (or in this case youtube)?

You should contact youtube before continuing that idea. Unless you have
a service agreement it comes under the broad heading of content piracy.

I'd go for the easier method of having your clients pass all youtube
requests over to your proxy without any URL changes. You can then
provide (or deny) the video without any extra worries using the original
youtube URLs.

Amos

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Received on Sat Aug 14 2010 - 04:20:20 MDT

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