delay pool for youtube

I also kinda got lost somewhere because I couldn't really keep up with suggestions without a forum. Here are my answers to your questions.

1. Right now this is not really possible because squid doesn't pass any connection information to url rewriters and will not raise any exception or error when a connection is closed following a browser close event by a client.

2. There is no need to add delay pools in videocache. You can limit bandwidth used by videocache by introducing delay pools for the proxy server's IP address. Because videocache uses proxy server to cache videos. So, if you put a cap on how much bandwidth your proxy server can use while using itself as a proxy, videocache bandwidth usage will automatically be limited :) And this will not affect normal traffic from your clients. Another option to control bandwidth usage by videocache is to use max_parallel_downloads option in /etc/videocache.conf.

In case you have more suggestions or answers look confusing, please feel free to reply here :)

Thanks for using videocache.

Hi

here is how to add delay pool to squid to limit the bandwidth of youtube and the other sites.

i gave an example of 512k for videocache sites, and other sites if the admin will add in the future.

acl bad_sites url_regex -i youtube.com redtube.com some_other_sites.com
delay_pools 1
delay_class 1 1
delay_access 1 allow bad_sites
delay_parameters 1 64000/8192

hope this will help.

try it and tell me your opinion .

Is it possible to use directly the acl provided by videocache's squid conf to use delay pools ?

I have this ACL .. I hope it help's

acl youtube urlpath_regex \/(get_video\?|videodownload\?|videoplayback.*id) \.(flv)\? \/ads\?