Does anyone KNOW of a command or otherwise that would enable me to scan all ports looking for one that is "listening" on my proxy server? I need to find one to download throughThat doesn't sound like something you're supposed/allowed to do.I'm at a boarding hostel that uses the school (seperate enitity) system, the blocks on the server ie MySpace, Bebo, Hotmail, etc are in order to stop the Day School students from using the computers for anything other than work but seeing as though I'm at the hostel I need to be able to do things; keep in touch with parents, download assignments, exemplars etc. I already use browsing proxies to overcome the problem of no emails, I just need to find a way of setting my explorer's download port to be an available one, so I can use my COMPUTER just as any day school student would whilst at home.

So if anyone actually has an answer to my question it would be greatly appreciated.Right, so netstat -a lists the ports on my computer that do it, any idea how to adapt this to apply it to the proxy server?This sounds.......strange.........Why would the hotel use a school system?...........Until recently they've been one and the same in terms of management but they've drifted away now in everything except for the computer systems simply because of the cost of setting up a new server and LANYou mind telling us the name of this hotel.....?In order to do what you want you would need to do a portscan on the proxy. I'm not GOING to tell you how to do that for two reasons.
1) The admins on the system have clearly decided that you're not supposed to download, whether you're downloading from the school or a hostel is irrelevant.
2). Port scanning is frown upon (since it is rarely done for a legitimate reason) and by doing so you are properly violating the usage terms for that network.

So I would suggest you either talk with an IT person and explain your situation or go google it and risk being banned from the network or worse.So you want to be able to grab your OPEN ports (which are probably not controlled by the computer anyway) and then forward this input to a proxy server, which it would then use to pass packets through in order to download files?

Firstly, I don't know if that's what you want, if it is it's probably not possible. I don't know why you can't download through the HTTP port 80, which is through what you download webpages.

I don't know much about this but could the OP and experts clarify, thanks.