Re: [squid-users] Squid WCCP and filters rules

On 30/03/11 01:54, gaël therond wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm still dealing with some WCCP special question.
>
> All my Cisco's and squid stuffs are working well, Cisco is redirecting requests, and squid do the job.
>
> BUT I'm wondering me if the following rules are correct and able to be respected with the wccp protocol active on squid.
>
> acl streaming_media_rep rep_mime_type ^video/x-flv
> acl streaming_media_req req_mime_type ^video/x-flv
>
> cache deny streaming_media_rep
> cache deny streaming_media_req
>
> I'm trying to not cache youtube or dailymotion streams at all, but unfortunatly it seems to not be really efficent.
>
> As you can see below, squid is still handeling the flux:
>
>
> Is there someone who now, how to avoid youtube's video to be cached?
>

Caching descisions are made on the request details. So mime type is too
late to work. Catching the User-Agent should work until they upgrade YT
away from flash ...

   acl flash browser Flash
   cache deny flash

And of course the YT domains can be non-cached as a whole with dstdomain.

Amos

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