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Does anyone know how to configure Squid to cache streaming media, such as iPlayer and YouTube? I have a 40+ user student network, and am seeing a lot of hits to the same pages, so it would be great (and easier on our connection!) if these sort of things could be cached so they only need to load once.

Thanks in advance

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  • Interesting technical question, but I am wondering why you allow access to these sites on your network?
    – tomjedrz
    Oct 26, 2009 at 18:44

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It sounds like it can be done, but apparently it's not easy. They also said this:

Be advised this demonstrated configuration has a mixed success rate, it works for some but others have reported it strangely not working at all.

Have a look at this article on their wiki.

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  • All I can say is worked for me whan I tested it a while back.
    – LapTop006
    Oct 27, 2009 at 5:12
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I would suggest trying out Videocache, it is written especially to cache youtube and other streaming video sites with Squid. I used it several versions ago and it seemed promising. Also the feature that it allows the admin to browse the videos afterwards was very handy (I managed to save several videos that were removed from Youtube).

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