On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Thomas Charron <[email protected]> wrote: > I doubt this would be possible. Remember, the stuff that is > transmitted is DRMed up the yazoo, and streamed (aka, unlikely to be > going over HTTP)
I'd guess that, at a minimum, they're using HTTP over SSL. So an HTTP proxy would just see a CONNECT method for an encrypted pipe, which cannot be cached. I'd also guess it's more likely NetFlix is using a UDP-based protocol. UDP is more appropriate for streaming, since the system won't get bogged down retransmitting data for something that's already passed in real-time. The only reasons I can think of to use HTTP (SSL or not) are (1) lame programmers who don't know how to do anything else, and (2) TCP/80 is the universal firewall bypass port. But even if they're using something that smells like cleartext HTTP, it's a sure bet the actual payload is encrypted and DRM'ed. -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
