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  • pranav
    #1

    Bypassing WebFilter security

    Hello everyone,
    I am working in an organization, which is using a very strict
    webcontent filter management suite. Due to this i am unable to
    download any exe file, or surf web (even the necessary downloads from
    sourceforgenet are blocked). I was wondering, if python could be of
    any help. Say i have a python script, and i pass the URL of
    downloadable file, and it just downloads the file for me.
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    • Stefan Behnel
      #2
      Re: Bypassing WebFilter security

      pranav wrote:
      I am working in an organization, which is using a very strict
      webcontent filter management suite. Due to this i am unable to
      download any exe file, or surf web (even the necessary downloads from
      sourceforgenet are blocked). I was wondering, if python could be of
      any help. Say i have a python script, and i pass the URL of
      downloadable file, and it just downloads the file for me.
      Nice try. Can I talk to your employer for a minute? :)

      Honestly, the language doesn't make any difference here, and there isn't much
      you can do unless you control both sides, i.e. the server and the client. But
      I would suggest you actually talk to your employer yourself to see if there's
      an official way to get what you want.

      Stefan

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        • Daniel Fetchinson
          #3
          Re: Bypassing WebFilter security

          >I am working in an organization, which is using a very strict
          >webcontent filter management suite. Due to this i am unable to
          >download any exe file, or surf web (even the necessary downloads from
          >sourceforgen et are blocked). I was wondering, if python could be of
          >any help. Say i have a python script, and i pass the URL of
          >downloadable file, and it just downloads the file for me.
          >
          Nice try. Can I talk to your employer for a minute? :)
          >
          Honestly, the language doesn't make any difference here, and there isn't
          much
          you can do unless you control both sides, i.e. the server and the client.
          But
          I would suggest you actually talk to your employer yourself to see if
          there's
          an official way to get what you want.
          Yes, the language itself doesn't matter as long as you go through the
          web. But if I were you I would use an ssh client to ssh to a remote
          machine on which I have an account, download the file there to that
          machine and scp it to the local machine. Assuming of course port 21 is
          not blocked.

          In fact, this is something I do regularly for similar reasons :)

          Good luck,
          Daniel
          --
          Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown

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            • pranav
              #4
              Re: Bypassing WebFilter security

              On Jul 11, 11:42 am, "Daniel Fetchinson" <fetchin...@goo glemail.com>
              wrote:
              I am working in an organization, which is using a very strict
              webcontent filter management suite. Due to this i am unable to
              download any exe file, or surf web (even the necessary downloads from
              sourceforgenet are blocked). I was wondering, if python could be of
              any help. Say i have a python script, and i pass the URL of
              downloadable file, and it just downloads the file for me.
              >
              Nice try. Can I talk to your employer for a minute? :)
              >
              Honestly, the language doesn't make any difference here, and there isn't
              much
              you can do unless you control both sides, i.e. the server and the client.
              But
              I would suggest you actually talk to your employer yourself to see if
              there's
              an official way to get what you want.
              >
              Yes, the language itself doesn't matter as long as you go through the
              web. But if I were you I would use an ssh client to ssh to a remote
              machine on which I have an account, download the file there to that
              machine and scp it to the local machine. Assuming of course port 21 is
              not blocked.
              >
              In fact, this is something I do regularly for similar reasons :)
              >
              Good luck,
              Daniel
              --
              Psss, psss, put it down! -http://www.cafepress.c om/putitdown
              Daniel, cool even i thought of the same thing, but you see, the
              assumption has no use in my case! It is also blocked, Anyways, i will
              talk to the system admins here. Thanks all

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                • Daniel Fetchinson
                  #5
                  Re: Bypassing WebFilter security

                  >I am working in an organization, which is using a very strict
                  >webcontent filter management suite. Due to this i am unable to
                  >download any exe file, or surf web (even the necessary downloads from
                  >sourceforgen et are blocked). I was wondering, if python could be of
                  >any help. Say i have a python script, and i pass the URL of
                  >downloadable file, and it just downloads the file for me.
                  >>
                  Nice try. Can I talk to your employer for a minute? :)
                  >>
                  Honestly, the language doesn't make any difference here, and there isn't
                  much
                  you can do unless you control both sides, i.e. the server and the
                  client.
                  But
                  I would suggest you actually talk to your employer yourself to see if
                  there's
                  an official way to get what you want.
                  >>
                  >Yes, the language itself doesn't matter as long as you go through the
                  >web. But if I were you I would use an ssh client to ssh to a remote
                  >machine on which I have an account, download the file there to that
                  >machine and scp it to the local machine. Assuming of course port 21 is
                  >not blocked.
                  >>
                  >In fact, this is something I do regularly for similar reasons :)
                  >>
                  >Good luck,
                  >Daniel
                  >--
                  >Psss, psss, put it down! -http://www.cafepress.c om/putitdown
                  >
                  Daniel, cool even i thought of the same thing, but you see, the
                  assumption has no use in my case! It is also blocked, Anyways, i will
                  talk to the system admins here. Thanks all
                  Wait, port 21 is the *incoming* ssh port, when you use a client to ssh
                  *out* you open a generic high port number. So that should work, you
                  ssh out, download, go back to your local machine and scp out to get
                  the file. On your local machine port 21 is not needed simply because
                  you don't run an ssh server.

                  Good luck,
                  Daniel
                  --
                  Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown

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