Re: [squid-users] ¡ problem with video loadingtime on www.svtplay.se !

From: Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 00:12:41 +1300

On 18/11/2011 9:34 p.m., Martin Lindkvist wrote:
> hello squiders .... I'm running a squid proxy and are having problems with movies played from http://svtplay.se/ ... it takes about 10 minutes to load a movie... most other sites that plays clips and movis are quick to load...

"other sites" are usually run by other people, from other parts of the
world. Differences are normal. All this shows is that it is unlikely to
be Squids fault.

> I have tried to use this option with NO chache

how? by disabling the disk cache? by disabling local storage? by
bypassing squid? by testing from alternative network locations?

> but it does not seem to have any efect... another option was to maby bypass the proxy just for this site but i did not whant to do this realy.... If anyone have a clue what I could do to fix this it would be very helpfull .... //Martin
>

redbot.org reports quite a large number of problems on that website. The
major ones seem to be ETag headers not changing when the object they
refer to changes. And requests for ranges of some binary objects
returning portions of completely different objects.

There also seems to be quite a lot of fluctuation in the server clock
values (about 20 minutes randomly changing server clock time, over an
actual 5 second load time). This woud have a bad affect on any streaming
video which is time sensitive.

This site shows strong signs of being servered by a cluster which has
broken NTP and HTTP ETag content synchronisation.

I only could test the public pagees. The videos are locked behind some
unfriendly Swedish-only policy.

Amos
Received on Fri Nov 18 2011 - 11:12:59 MST

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