[c-nsp] Rate-limiting You Tube tarffic

[Adrian Chadd]

On Sat, Mar 08, 2008, Troy Davis wrote:
> One option is a transparent proxy like Squid.  Direct and embedded 
> Youtube URLs are fairly consistently constructed; as long as you can 
> filter based on the HTTP 1.1 Host header, blocking *.swf from 
> *.youtube.com would prevent movie playback.

.. and if you're clever, Squid-2.7 can be taught to cache Youtube just
as effectively as filtering it.




Adrian
(I was bored at a conference, ok? :)