Not exactly, Youtube video's are cacheable but you'll never get HIT without redirect or StoreUrlRewrite. It only poisoned your cache. Why? Beacuse the youtube's URL has varialbles not just the domain but in the path it self.
StoreUrlRewrite is the most efficient way of caching contents from popular sites. Since these popular sites are using CDN(or different domains) to distribute their contents. Not just youtube but seems all social networking are using CDN(or kind of). ----- Original Message ---- From: Chris Robertson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2009 7:48:15 AM Subject: Re: [squid-users] Cache youtube videos WITHOUT videocache? Mark Lodge wrote: > I've come across this at http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/StoreUrlRewrite > > Feature: Store URL Rewriting? > > Does this mean i can cache videos without using videocache? That's the idea*. As far as I recall, it's not (yet) supported on the Squid 3 branch. Chris * To be clear, any Squid is capable of caching videos without using videocache or Store URL rewriting. The trouble comes in from the fact that the popular video sites serve the same video from multiple different domains, so you may end up caching multiple copies of the same video (since they are different URLs) without the above mentioned trickery.
