[squid-users] Evaluating traffic for caching benefits.

2009-06-01 Thread Ray Van Dolson
Any suggestions on how to go about evaluating web traffic for cacheability? I have access to a port that can see all the web traffic in our company. I'd like to be able to gauge how many hits there are to common sites to get a feel for how much bandwidth savings we could potentially gain by

[squid-users] YouTube and other streaming media (caching)

2008-04-16 Thread Ray Van Dolson
Hello all, I'm beginning to implement a Squid setup and am in particular looking to cache Youtube as it is a significant chunk of our traffic and we don't want to outright block it (yet). I'm using squid-2.6.STABLE6 from RHEL 5.1 (latest errata). I've been reading around a lot and am seeking a

Re: [squid-users] YouTube and other streaming media (caching)

2008-04-16 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 08:11:51AM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: The problem with caching Youtube (and other CDN content) is that the same content is found at lots of different URLs/hosts. This unfortunately means you'll end up caching multiple copies of the same content and (almost!) never see

[squid-users] Don't want to start a flamewar, but...

2008-05-15 Thread Ray Van Dolson
I am using the 2.7.HEAD branch -- specifically for the Store URL rewrite options added by Adrian. This makes 3.0 currently not an option for me. I'm curious what the long-term plans are for the 2.x branch and the 3.x branch. Will the store URL stuff be ported to 3.x eventually? Adrian, you

Re: [squid-users] Re: Cacheboy-1.1 release, testers wanted!

2008-06-07 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 01:32:31PM -0700, Linda W wrote: So I guess, how did cacheboy come to be and why is it here (which may become obvious if I know the connection to the 'main' squid project...)? :-? This thread may be of some interest to you: http://marc.info/?t=12108954741r=1w=2