# Wget Gateway

Welcome to Wget Gateway, a simple page showing the usage of socksified wget behind a firewall. In my configuration it is very useful because:

- Only few users can exit from firewall
- A lot of users need information that can be reached in Internet
- I cannot dowload big files during my job time, so, I have to schedule the requests after the normal work time

With the combination of a socksified wget and a simple cgi that schedules the requests can I reach the aim. All you need is:

- A socksified copy of wget
- Perl (available on all the GNU mirroring sites)
- cgi-lib.pl (available at CPAN)
- A customized copy of this html
- A customized copy of socks.cgi

This is my h/s configuration:

    +----------+ +----------------------------------+ +---------------------+
    | Firewall | | Host that can exit from firewall | | Intranet www server |
    +----------+ |            htceff                | +---------------------+
                 +----------------------------------+ | Wget.html           |
                 | socksified wget                  | +---------------------+
    	     | cgi-lib.pl                       |
    	     | perl                             |
    	     | wget.cgi                         |
    	     +----------------------------------+

wget.cgi, wget and cgi-lib.pl are located in the usual cgi-bin directory. The customization of wget.cgi and wget.html has to reflect you installation, i.e.:

- download-netscape.html requires wget.cgi
- wget.cgi requires Perl, cgi-lib.pl and wget
- wget.cgi has to download the files to a directory writable by the user submitting the request. At the moment I have an anonymous ftp installed on htceff, and wget puts dowloaded files to /pub/incoming directory (if you look at wget.cgi, it sets the destdir to "/u/ftp/pub/incoming" if the user leaves it blank).

You can also add other parameters that you want to pass to wget, but in this case you will also have to modify wget.cgi

Recursive Download |

Depth | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

Url to download: | Destination directory: |

Now you can the requested URL or the form.

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Last modified: Mon Oct 23 17:40:03 CEST 2000