SysChat is a free online computer support community. Ask questions, share resources, contribute knowledge and discuss technology. Join our growing community to access all features. Register Now!

SysChat » General » General Tech Support » Hiding File Extensions

General Tech Support

General technical discussion and troubleshooting help not covered in the topics above goes here.

Reply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools
  #1 (permalink)  
Old 03-04-2007, 01:04 AM
eldore44 eldore44 is offline
Junior Member
 
About:
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 4
eldore44 is on a distinguished road

Default Hiding File Extensions


I was wondering if there was any way of hiding a file extension when downloading, or if there is a proxy out there that will hide it for me.

Does anyone know wether this is possible? Thankyou very much for your support.



Reply With Quote
  #2 (permalink)  
Old 03-04-2007, 07:53 AM
William_Wilson's Avatar
William_Wilson William_Wilson is offline
Moderator
 
About:
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Canada
Posts: 973
William_Wilson has a spectacular aura aboutWilliam_Wilson has a spectacular aura aboutWilliam_Wilson has a spectacular aura about

Default


what do you mean hide? I'm assuming your admin/server will not allow you to download .exe or similar files? Or are you trying to hide it from the user?



__________________

</Dream In Code>
-William. § (marvin_gohan)
Reply With Quote
  #3 (permalink)  
Old 03-05-2007, 04:56 AM
eldore44 eldore44 is offline
Junior Member
 
About:
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 4
eldore44 is on a distinguished road

Default


Hit the nail on the head there. Is there a proxy that would do this? Or can i?

a proxy will let me go to a site but when i try to download the file extensions are blocked no matter what.

i assume file extensions are blocked by the computer technician if they are commonly downloaded ones. Maybe i could use lesser known file extensions, is there any?

When you go to a page to download it will be something like

www.site.com/file.exe

I would like to change it to www.site.com/file.XXX or www.site.com/file

thanks again for your help.



Reply With Quote
  #4 (permalink)  
Old 03-05-2007, 03:25 PM
William_Wilson's Avatar
William_Wilson William_Wilson is offline
Moderator
 
About:
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Canada
Posts: 973
William_Wilson has a spectacular aura aboutWilliam_Wilson has a spectacular aura aboutWilliam_Wilson has a spectacular aura about

Default


if you change the extension, the file will not be found by your browser or application.
What happens when you try to download these files?
Error message, cannot find page error, etc?
describe the process as best you can with the error message/number and there may be some sort of modification that will allow this.

It probably is a proxy, and you may not be able to modify it, but pending how it's implemented, there may be ways to "trick" it.



__________________

</Dream In Code>
-William. § (marvin_gohan)
Reply With Quote
  #5 (permalink)  
Old 03-06-2007, 05:07 AM
kingofqueens kingofqueens is offline
Junior Member
 
About:
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 26
kingofqueens is on a distinguished road

Default


Could you really tell me what you are upto here ?
Are you talking about your own website here , and changing how the way the download link looks to user ?


If you want to delete all records of what you accessed , then try CCleaner .



Reply With Quote
  #6 (permalink)  
Old 03-06-2007, 06:23 AM
eldore44 eldore44 is offline
Junior Member
 
About:
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 4
eldore44 is on a distinguished road

Default


I need to bypass my school firewally thing and download from the school internet.

When i download it comes up with:

Sorry.
The page you requested has been blocked.

Please see your administrator if you do not agree with this policy, or click here to edit the policy if you have permission.

Blocked page diagnostics:

URL: http://elmayo.com/index.php?q=uggc:/...cvpnyFrghc.rkr

Reason: Banned MIME Type: application/octet-stream /opt/sonar/sonar_http/etc/groups/19/bannedmimetypelist





elmayo.com is my proxy but i was trying to download from a music site.



Reply With Quote
  #7 (permalink)  
Old 03-09-2007, 11:29 PM
eldore44 eldore44 is offline
Junior Member
 
About:
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 4
eldore44 is on a distinguished road

Default


Sometimes it also says this:

Blocked page diagnostics:

URL: http://www......com.au/song.mp3

Reason: Banned extension: .mp3



Reply With Quote
  #8 (permalink)  
Old 04-04-2007, 06:37 PM
b1caez01's Avatar
b1caez01 b1caez01 is offline
Senior Member
 
About:
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 220
b1caez01 is an unknown quantity at this point

Default Tilt!!!


You may find that this DOService has nothing to do with the file's extension, it is a matter of the Security settings on the filter of the server's Anti-Malware program...the server being set up on the school's office or the multi-media centre's main office...wherever your client computer runs from...

Certain sites have been predetermined to be sites that "you" are not to be exposed to ...period! So, no adulteration of the "facts" on your part, from a client of the server, point of view, is going to subvert that intent.

BTW...no software exists to completely hide you from the internet...it is all hype... Computers need to be able to both "see" and "hear" each other ...and if they cannot, then they cannot communicate with each other ...period!



Reply With Quote
  #9 (permalink)  
Old 10-30-2007, 05:31 AM
Raget Raget is offline
Junior Member
 
About:
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 2
Raget is on a distinguished road

Default Hiding File Extensions


I have the same problem with my schools internet and in the course of many frustrating hours of running into sites that are blocked i have thought that maybe hiding file extensions is the way to go.

As has been said before if anyone has any info on how to get around this your help would be greatly appreciated.





Last edited by Raget; 10-30-2007 at 05:58 AM..
Reply With Quote
  #10 (permalink)  
Old 10-30-2007, 09:17 AM
William_Wilson's Avatar
William_Wilson William_Wilson is offline
Moderator
 
About:
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Canada
Posts: 973
William_Wilson has a spectacular aura aboutWilliam_Wilson has a spectacular aura aboutWilliam_Wilson has a spectacular aura about

Default


There likely are ways around it, in every situation, but your schools have reasons for placing these blocks in place. Since most music on the internet is less than 100% legal, and apps can do harm to a computer or the entire network, they have opted to disallow all relations to them.
I know when i was in highschool they blocked all of the obvious stuff including any site with the word 'game' in it.

A school is a place of learning, not really meant to be a download monster.



__________________

</Dream In Code>
-William. § (marvin_gohan)
Reply With Quote
Reply




Thread Tools

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is on
Smilies are on
[IMG] code is on
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are Off
Pingbacks are Off
Refbacks are on



» Ads



1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54