[squid-users] Deny Caching of Video and Audio

[Antony Stone]

On Tuesday 04 August 2015 at 10:28:32, Antony Stone wrote:

> On Tuesday 04 August 2015 at 01:39:38, Jorgeley Junior wrote:
> > create an acl:
> > acl youtube dstdomain .youtube.com
> > use the directive: cache deny youtube
> 
> That will prevent caching for all content from a specific domain, no matter
> what size the objects.

Oh, and I forgot to mention - a lot of people here are struggling to work out 
how to *get* Squid to cache content from youtube, because youtube doesn't send 
content by 'standard HTTP' any more.

Therefore blocking the caching of content from youtube.com in particular will 
very likely make almost zero difference.

> It's a bit tedious to have to set this up for all the domains you think you
> might get overly-large content from, and once you have, it's prevents
> caching of anything from those domains, including the acceptably small
> stuff.
> 
> > 2015-08-03 19:29 GMT-03:00 Antony Stone wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 04 August 2015 at 00:13:32, markme wrote:
> > > > Is there a simple way to deny caching of video and audio? My manager
> > > > doesn't want these to be cached due to the large amount of space they
> > > > might take up.
> > > 
> > > Just set the maximum cache object size - then it doesn't matter whether
> > > it's audio, video, ISO images, windows updates, or whatever - things
> > > taking up large amounts of space won't be cached.
> > > 
> > > Antony.

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