Bypassing WebFilter security

[pranav]

On Jul 11, 11:42 am, "Daniel Fetchinson" <fetchin... at googlemail.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.com/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