ASA rate limit certain websites

Question

Hello,
Is there a way with the ASA to rate limit certain websites?  Match using regex but rate limit only those matches?
For example if I wanted to rate limit youtube, could I match youtube in a regex statement and then inspect http and only rate limit youtube and not the rest of the http traffic?
When I set the rate limit it allways seems to rate-limit whatever I am inspecting, eg http in general.
Or should I look at doing this on my router instead?
Thanks,
Dan.

Answer 1

Dan,
OK - I forwarded that particular example as the way I look at it, it tells me:-
1) How to configrure RegEx
2) How to configure a specific URL to perform an action (it just happens in this example it's a block action)
3) Assign it to a class map
Once you have it in a class map, you are almost there - in theory (I have not tried this) but since you will have a class map, you should be able to assign it to a QoS policy map, rate limiting the amount of traffic?
See the below example of a QoS Rate Limit
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/vpndevc/ps2030/products_tech_note09186a008084de0c.shtml
Andrew.