[Setting up a proxy-server to bypass mimetype blocking]

That would solve my problem, haven't thought of that solution myself.

Thanks, I'll look into it :)

But, I am fairly competent with PHP, but could anyone give me a pointer on how to download files from other sites?

[Setting up a proxy-server to bypass mimetype blocking]

Of course I could do it with a SSH-client, but I'm just thinking wild here.

Some things I'm curious about:

1. When I download a file, where is the info about mime-type stored, and is it possible for a webengine (PHP) to change it?

2. Can I create a serverside application that downloads from an external site into a buffer (so I can manipulate the info some how). Then sends this out (so I would get a download-dialog) to my client.

[Setting up a proxy-server to bypass mimetype blocking]

Hey there.

I'm sitting behind a firewall with an ISA-server which denies downloading of almost all filetypes.  I can understand why they've blocked downloading of executive files like MSI and EXE, but often I want to download PSD, AI, TIFF and RAR - and I do not want to go down to the IT-department to make them do it for me.

That's why I thought, isn't it possible to set up a site which acts like a proxy and downloads the files then renames them/changes the mimetype to an allowed type like the ones DOC, TXT, ZIP have or something like that?

Do anyone of you know of a way I could this with a server-side language like PHP?

Thanks :)

Edit: Should this post maybe have been put under the "Hacks, Mods & Coding" forum? If so - my bad.