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Setting up a proxy-server to bypass mimetype blocking


Eikern

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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.

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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.

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Most places allow real zip file downloads. Just throw it in a zip and then download it. You can put rar files in a zip archive. If you have your own server utside th enetwork, I am sure you could pass it a url to a file and have php zip it up for you and you could then download it.

http://us2.php.net/zip

Now, I am no programmer, so getting it to work is on you, but I think it could be done.

Your server with php outside of network firewall > pass it url to file you want > server gets file and zips it > stores it on server > creates link to archive for you to download from your server

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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?

You could use sockets and connect on port 80 to the server and then issue your requests and stuff straight to the HTTP server.

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