I always dream of writing a proxy server—-where all videos—-irrespective of device—-get stored in a local cache and served without going outside on subsequent requests.
Gonna try this one, and gonna take that direction.
Cache hit rate. How big is your cache? Large enough to get a hit rate that economically saves you money vs the cost of the SAN?
Can you cache YouTube videos?
Can you intercept YouTube videos? You'll need a root cert installed on your client devices.
And, here's the worst: many applications do cert pinning so they'll refuse to load, even if the signer is in the root store. They require a specific signer.
I had this same idea around 2012ish. And had the naive impression that you could cache youtube videos on a proxy level (using Squid). Boy was I wrong, even then YT was employing heavy tactics to prevent people from caching videos at the native http cache header level. And it was at that point I realized something was wrong with the internet.
https has put the kibosh on a lot of this type of stuff, unless you’re willing to set up a local CA and trust the root cert on ~every device that will use your network.
I always dream of writing a proxy server—-where all videos—-irrespective of device—-get stored in a local cache and served without going outside on subsequent requests.
Gonna try this one, and gonna take that direction.