On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 06:43 -0800, Michael Ewan wrote: > > ----- "Michael Robinson" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Has anyone been able to watch a movie on Hulu through a squid proxy? > > > > It seems to effectively filter an Internet connection that one has to > > use a proxy outfitted with say Dansguardian. Great, problem is some > > sites seem to be incompatible with Squid. There is Procon Latte, but > > that is not an enforceable approach and in general this plugin is far > > too inaccurate for my liking. > > > > Has anyone done server side proxyless filtering? The only proxyless > > filtering approach I know of is to use iptables to block Net access > > which is not what I'm needing. > > > > I wonder if my Pentium III server is just simply too slow to serve a > > movie from Hulu via Squid? > > > > Are you using caching with Squid, if so that might be your problem. Have you > tried telling Squid not to cache that server address, I believe there is a > nocache option. Also proxying streaming video is counter productive, and > your poor Pentium III is way underpowered for any Web 2.0 traffic.
Thanks for the tip. Speaking of processing power and memory, how much of both does one need to cache a movie streamed from Hulu successfully? Will dansguardian work with caching turned off? Servers tend to be older computers from the standpoint that it is common to run them for a long time. An old computer is practically speaking any computer that is currently in use by someone. That's a technological reality which has it's pluses and minuses. The latest quad core technology doesn't seem that expensive, but what would it give me to upgrade say my Internet gateway from a PIII to a quad core system and what would that upgrade cost? I guess the more common question is when will Squid not work and why? The use a newer computer than a PIII seems to answer that question partially. A more in depth discussion of when will Squid not work and why could be very helpful to me. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
