[squid-users] caching videos over https?

Yuri Voinov yvoinov at gmail.com
Sat Nov 19 15:54:26 UTC 2016


HTTPS is not a problem, if not a problem to install the proxy
certificate to the clients.

The problem in combating caching YT by Google.


19.11.2016 21:41, Yuri Voinov пишет:
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> 19.11.2016 21:35, Amos Jeffries пишет:
>>> 19.11.2016 20:56, Bakhtiyor Homidov пишет:
>>>> thanks, yuri,
>>>>
>>>> just found https://cachevideos.com/, what do you think about this?
>>>>
>> On 20/11/2016 4:17 a.m., Yuri Voinov wrote:
>>> This is fake.
>>>
>> Only for strange definitions of "fake".
>>
>> It is simply an old helper from before YouTube became all-HTTPS. It
>> should still work okay for any of the video sites that are still using HTTP.
> YT uses cache-preventing scheme for videos relatively long time (after
> they finished use Flash videos). So, no one - excluding Google itself
> - can cache it now. Especially for mobile devices. I've spent last two
> years to learn this. So, anyone who talk he can cache YT is lies.
>
> As I explain here
> why: http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples/DynamicContent/YouTube/Discussion
> <http://wiki.squid-cache.org/ConfigExamples/DynamicContent/YouTube/Discussion>
>
> All another videos - well, this is a bit difficult - but possible to
> cache.
>
>> If you look at the features list it clearly says:
>>  "No support for HTTPS (secure HTTP) caching."
> HTTPS itself in most cases can't be easy cached by vanilla squid.
>> Amos
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