On Jul 11, 11:42 am, "Daniel Fetchinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
