[c-nsp] Rate-limiting You Tube tarffic

[Richard A Steenbergen]

On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 11:12:55AM +0900, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> 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.

Peering with Pakistan Telecom works too. :)

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