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YouTube - Streaming Media Configurations

gr79

Has anybody successfully been able to allow some areas of YouTube, but not allow streaming media from all of youtube.com?

I am looking to allow for some videos, or the YouTube spaces of some companies, for my end users to access.  I'd like them to access previously defined/allowed areas of YouTube, without allowing streaming media for the entire domain.

Thanks,

GR

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    Hi GR,

    This is possible, although it can require a little bit of work - especially if you want to allow lots of videos.  The difficulty is that many things happen when you play a youtube video, so there will be several URLs you need to manually allow.

    As an example, I set the following to be 'Globally Allowed Sites' in 'Configuration > Group Policy > Local Site list' to get this to work:

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=<VIDEO>  (Replace <VIDEO> with the ID of the video)

    youtube.com/videoplayback

    ytimg.com

    This should allow the stylesheets, images, video etc to load, without allowing the user to browse elsewhere on the site.  Be warned though, if the youtube site is changed at some point, it might 'break' these videos and cause more admin work on your part. 

    Also, some videos might work differantly (for example some TV shows which are streamed from other sites). 

    If you have any problems I would recommend to use the 'Search > By User' facility on the appliance.  This feature is really useful - it shows what URLs were blocked recently for a specific user.  This can help you work out why a page/video isn't working properly.

    Hope this helps,

    Tom.

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    The only problem with showing exclusive youtube videos is that you will have to allow each url individually. Youtube uses server side language to show videos and other related videos. Web pages on youtube are not made individually like you would imagine. Each page puts together scripts from several files on the server and sparces them onto the page in designated locations. If you wish to only embed certain videos, only embed those videos onto your pages.

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