Squid and Movie Streaming

[UndeniablyRexer]

To make a long story short, I have an Ubuntu server(8.10 Desktop edition) running a Squid proxy server. My Windows Desktop, while using it as a proxy, is unable to watch videos on Hulu. So far Hulu is the only problem I've seen, Youtube works.

Hulu works if I am on the server itself.

[meton_magis]

I know hulu uses flash, does it maybe try and route data through a different port than port 80? If so, either your squid proxy could be blocking data going through a different port (I think the default would be to do so). You could also fix this by changing your firefox to not proxy hulu data, depending on your setup.

[UndeniablyRexer]

Well, I unblocked all ports between 0 and 65535, so I don't think it's a port problem. I can't exclude Hulu from the proxy because the proxy is my only source of internet.

I'm using windows, the college network requires all windows machines, and only windows, to have special software. So I'm using puTTy to create a SSH tunnel to my dedicated Ubuntu server, which does not require special software to get internet access.

[meton_magis]

OH, in that case, just use a socks 5 proxy, and skip all the squid crap. In PuTTY, under tunnel, do a dynamic tunnel on whatever port (above 1024). then put that into firefox under the socks proxy. That will clear up all your problems I think. Squid is a little excesive if you have no intention of cacheing content (kinda pointless for 1 person) or blocking access (kinda stupid, since YOU'RE the admin)

[UndeniablyRexer]

Thanks, that worked.

[meton_magis]

Thanks, that worked.

Glad it worked for you, since I was only about 80% sure it would work, the other 20% was a wild guess

gratz on getting it working