Re^4: Why is my image obtained by LWP displayed as garbage (i.e. plain/text)?

The majority of corporate firewalls are run by morons who would flee in terror at the mere suggestion of scripting or programming languages such as Perl or C.

Maybe the security staff think they are gurus because they can actually work out an access-list on a Cisco router or *horrors* use Visual Basic in their spare time.

If you know what you're doing, by passing the corporate firewall is never an unworthy endeavour.

But I would never, ever contemplate downloading or viewing porn at work. That's a one-way ticket to humiliation and never getting another job.

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Re^5: Why is my image obtained by LWP displayed as garbage (i.e. plain/text)? by crontab (Initiate) on Oct 20, 2005 at 09:15 UTC
>>If you know what you're doing, by passing the corporate firewall is never an unworthy endeavour :-) In regards to your last statement - I completely agree. I'm not trying to view sites that I really ought not to be viewing at work. What I'm trying to do is use things like babelfish. I work in Holland during the week and need to translate local web pages - searching for accommodation is a prime example. The image thing is/was just a diversion from the main aim - to be able to remotely retrieve useful and relevant - and yet autoblocked - content using GET and POST.	[reply]
Re^6: Why is my image obtained by LWP displayed as garbage (i.e. plain/text)? by pboin (Deacon) on Oct 20, 2005 at 14:04 UTC
IMO, you're going about this the wrong way. If I found you backing through my firewall, and my policies, I'd be pissed. The only engineering you should be doing at this point is social engineering. Have you tried asking the folks who control the firewall if they can open babelfish for you? You have a good reason, and you're a lot less likely to get your pee-pee slapped if you get caught, so why not try that? By the way, are you spending working hours trying to do this, or are you doing it on personal time?	[reply]
Re^6: Why is my image obtained by LWP displayed as garbage (i.e. plain/text)? by jfroebe (Parson) on Oct 20, 2005 at 13:35 UTC
Ahh... understood now. :) When you talked about the firewall, I as well as others, wrongly assumed that you were doing a bit of sneakiness. I'm sorry we assumed the worst. Jason L. Froebe Team Sybase member No one has seen what you have seen, and until that happens, we're all going to think that you're nuts. - Jack O'Neil, Stargate SG-1	[reply]