SWGFL and YouTube

[techie08]

Hi

 

Does anyone know why when i am tring to view youtube videos using the filtered proxy (Rule added to allow youtube) the videos come up with "An error occured, please try again later"

 

The videos work perfectly when un filtered.

 

Thanks

[mb2k01]

I had this a while back when I was trying to embed videos in to a custom made web portal (my theoretical way of providing access to videos while still having YouTube filtered).

 

I spent quite a whack of time on the phone with SWGfL support and didn't get anywhere - it seems more modular filtering is required for this to happen which means moving to SmartCache or implementing something like Smoothwall (which lots talk of here!)

[kmount]

I've experienced this with another provider and it tends to be that the video is hosted on a domain which *is* filtered even though youtube.com may not be. (I think it was some google domain I added in the end....)

[tom_newton]

Make sure you unblock a handful of youtube domains.. here's a sample log showing me getting blocked by smoothie trying to watch a youtube vid - I get nailed on "filetype: flv" but if any of the other domains, eg. ytimg.com were blocked, you would suffer a similar fate. HTH.

 

16:02:31 192.168.70.143 - http://www.youtube.com -84 200

Audio and Video

16:02:41 192.168.70.143 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4uMTZWh0Rc&feature=p... 9 200

Audio and Video

16:02:43 192.168.70.143 - http://i1.ytimg.com/i/LEN4JItVYQJPgzekq-nVbg/1.jpg?v... 0 200

16:02:49 192.168.70.143 - http://s.ytimg.com/yt/swf/watch-vfl118234.swf 0 200

16:02:51 192.168.70.143 - http://www.google.com/reviews/y/read2?video_id=j4uMT... 0 200

*URLMOD*

Search Engines

16:02:51 192.168.70.143 - http://www.google.com/reviews/y/crossdomain.xml 0 200

Search Engines

16:02:51 192.168.70.143 - http://v2.lscache6.c.youtube.com/videoplayback?ip=0.... 0 403

*DENIED* Banned extension: .flv

Banned extension

16:02:51 192.168.70.143 - http://s.ytimg.com/yt/swf/iv_module-vfl115456.swf 0 200

16:02:51 192.168.70.143 - http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=j4uMTZWh0R... 0 204

Audio and Video

[cosmic_computers]

Hello, I wanted to allow a couple of youtube videos but keep the rest blocked. After a while this is what the SWGFL Filter looked like:

 

ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.4/jquery.min.js ALLOW

downloads.mailchimp.com/js/jquery.form-n-validate.js ALLOW

s.ytimg.com/yt/* ALLOW

v7.lscache8.c.youtube.com/* ALLOW

http://www.youtube.com/crossdomain.xml ALLOW

http://www.youtube.com/get_video* ALLOW

http://www.youtube.com/get_video_info* ALLOW

 

http://www.youtube.com/user/iwasborntolearn ALLOW (youtube user)

ALLOW (Single Youtube Video )

http://www.youtube.com/embed/falHoOEUFz0 ALLOW (Single Youtube Video )

 

 

 

Hope this helps!

Edited March 15, 2011 by cosmic_computers