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httpd return it double ?

by arios on 23 Mar 2011

just curious this is bug or not , i try to access cached video from youtube but got 2 file in return (11 character and 16 character file) and it cost double bandwidth

10.128.3.66 - - [23/Mar/2011:10:21:40 +0700] "GET /videocache/youtube/62d66675ab67c50a?sparams=id%2Cexpire%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Calgorithm%2Cburst%2Cfactor%2Coc%3AU0hPRVhSUl9FSkNOOV9QTFZF&algorithm=throttle-factor&itag=34&ipbits=0&burst=40&sver=3&signature=6C453A4AF51186FF79B096F593862449AB7C269A.0F403DC52EDE67AA758954D64079D547082ACEF1&expire=1300874400&key=yt1&ip=0.0.0.0&factor=1.25&id=62d66675ab67c50a HTTP/1.1" 200 15550456 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 AskTbFXTV5/3.9.1.14019 Firefox/3.6.8"
10.128.3.66 - - [23/Mar/2011:10:21:40 +0700] "GET /videocache/youtube/YtZmdatnxQo?video_id=YtZmdatnxQo&t=vjVQa1PpcFP4xJHN-U_ikkOaRnIblXBLAKOQ1cb3ogo=&el=detailpage&fmt=34&asv=3 HTTP/1.1" 200 15550456 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 AskTbFXTV5/3.9.1.14019 Firefox/3.6.8"

i did torch from my mikrotik box to view bandwidth usage (i got double connection)

http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/2091/videocachedoublebw.jpg

any idea ?

1 Answers

by Kulbir Saini on 29 Mar 2011

Hi!

This is not a bug. This happens only for Youtube. We are trying to work on a solution for that.

Thank You!