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dyobbs_25515
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NimbostratusFiltering http video traffic
team hi,
Im working on a customer and wanted to segregate http video traffic ( youtube, trailers.. etc) against normal http browsing traffic, how do i do this?
Will URI detection be ok?
Many thanks!
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What_Lies_Bene1Cirrostratus
How are you going to segregate? Will you need to do so based on the request or the response?
dyobbs_25515Steve hi, based on request coming from the user.
If let's say the user accessed an HTTP content that can be FLV, MOV, MP4, WMV or any known web video formats.
How is the case if this is a response?- What_Lies_Bene1In a response you could check the value of the Content-Type: HTTP header. However, how you plan to segregate the traffic will dictate whether you check the request or response.
You could also check the Accept: HTTP header in a request to avoid checking URIs but you'd need to capture some traffic (or headers with a browser add-on) to confirm what the relevant header values are.
