Not working - Mac 10.5, java 1.5.0_16, Firefox 3.0.5

[Jeremy Dunck]

Maybe I'm dumb, broken, or both, but this doesn't seem to work for me.

My browser was already running, and this just opened a new tab. I went
to YouTube with a 9.6K connection, speed was clearly regular rate.

Hmm. Success from others?

[Richard Dallaway]

There are a couple of things going on here.

First off, it looks like youtube.com are redirecting to a different
server. E.g., when I ask for http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P6FbU4baWk&feature=dir
I'm really redirected to http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_P6FbU4baWk&feature=dir

Sloppy doesn't assume that the server you're redirecting to the same
as the server you asked for, so it's stepping out of the way there.
The tell-tail sign is that your browser window will show an address of
"http:/127.0.0.1:7569" when Sloppy it's involved. It'll show some
other address when it's not involved.

The fix for that is to track down where you're being sent to, and use
that address instead. For me it was a uk.youtube.com, but might be
different for you. That will cause the HTML page to go through Sloppy
and that should appear slow.

This has been a pain a couple of times, so I think Sloppy should
change it's behaviour here, and I've captured this in http://code.google.com/p/sloppy/issues/detail?id=9

Second thing is that Sloppy won't attempt to slow down Youtube video
content. From what I can tell, the video content is being sent from
v6.cache.googlevideo.com, which won't be passing through Sloppy so
won't be slowed down in.

That's a much bigger issue for Sloppy. I'm not sure what the right
solution is. In principle it seems possible that anything Sloppy
receives could be re-written to ensure it goes back through Sloppy...
but in this case if the Flash player is making the decision of where
to get data from (and I don't know that for sure), then Sloppy is not
going to be able to change that.

If anyone has any bright ideas about what to do here, feel free to
chip in.

I also realize I need to fix http://code.google.com/p/sloppy/issues/detail?id=7
... not being able to paste Youtube URLs is a real pain.

Richard