redirect all youtube video requests to a specific one

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I'm on an IT team in my company and I would like to block youtube to users. I don't want to just deny access to the whole youtube domain, but only to replace the .flv/.mp4 request with the one that I want. That way, if someone tries to watch youtube videos on the network, He'll get a video of why using our expensive bandwidth for pleasure is a no-no.

I thought about using a packet manipulation program and just replace the video ID with something that I want, but I didn't manage to do it right.

Heh. That's actually kinda clever. – ceejayoz Apr 05 '12 at 15:41 — ceejayoz, Apr 05 '12 at 15:41
I'm using TMG Forefront 2010 Server. – iTayb Apr 05 '12 at 15:59 — iTayb, Apr 05 '12 at 15:59

Jeff Welling · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-05T16:52:51.430

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I think your best bet is to use a transparent proxy to intercept and redirect requests to your video. It's not for the average Joe but being on an IT team I have faith you can make it work with the existing howtos and tutorials. I did, and I'm just a hobbyist admin/programmer :).

I accomplished it with Squid and iptables.

Edit: What I did was test out this upside down internet setup[0]. Once I'd familiarized myself with that process I tweaked the scripts to accomplish what it was I wanted to accomplish. I think for your purposes all you would need to modify is the redirection script. Hope that helps.

[0] http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html

edited Apr 05 '12 at 16:52

answered Apr 05 '12 at 16:24

Jeff Welling

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Can you add more details. Some links to existing howtos you mentioned. You say you did something with squid, please add some details. – Zoredache Apr 05 '12 at 16:45
Expanded to include the link that I used to get up and running. – Jeff Welling Apr 05 '12 at 16:53

redirect all youtube video requests to a specific one

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