Re: [squid-users] M$ ASF video format

"Lightfoot.Michael" wrote:

> http://www.aph.gov.au/asfroot/hms8.asx
>
> Neither of these are in squid's mime.conf file. I assume that this is
> the reason nothing is happening and users are getting errors in their M$
> Media Player to the effect that it can't open the file.

Nope. mime.conf is only when Squid is acting as a HTTP server for ftp://
and/or gopher:// URL namespaces, not for proxying of http:// URLS (there
the origin server provides the mime types).

> 1044927430.544 88 x.x.x.x TCP_CLIENT_REFRESH_MISS/200 820 GET
>
http://www.aph.gov.au/asfroot/hms8.asx -
> DEFAULT_PARENT/cyclops.comcare.gov.au video/x-ms-asf

A 820 bytes reply seems awfully small for beeing a video.

Are you sure these "asx" files are video files and not only video
description files?

Quick check: Defenitely video description files.

<asx version = "3.0">
  <Title>Parliamentary Committee</Title>
  <Author>Parliament of Australia</Author>
  <Copyright>Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1999</Copyright>
  <entry>
    <ref href = "mms://dmzvideo1.aph.gov.au/Video1hms8"/>
    <ref href = "http://dmzvideo1.aph.gov.au/Video1hms8.asf"/>
    <ref href = "mms://dmzvideo2.aph.gov.au/Video2hms8"/>
    <ref href = "http://dmzvideo2.aph.gov.au/Video2hms8.asf"/>
  </entry>
</asx>

This means that after this request the media player will try to get the
actual video, possibly using other protocols (mms:// looks suspicious
above..)

If I try to look into one of the http:// references above I get another
description back:

[Reference]
Ref1=http://DMZVideo1:80/Video1hms8.asf
Ref2=http://172.31.1.47:80/Video1hms8.asf

The first indicates the video server is somewhat misconfigured (using a
local hostname instead of a fully qualified name including domain).

And the second address is not reachable as it is a private IP address...
probably the internal IP address behind a NAT gateway or firewall..

Regards
Henrik
Received on Mon Feb 10 2003 - 20:24:41 MST