Hi, everyone.
I used to use the xmethods.net babelfish SOAP service to perform an occasional translation via. COM+SOAP/.NET in a couple of personal scripts. Recently (10/03), the xmethod service went under (presumably for good). I'd like to alter my scripts to just screen-scrape the text from a POST response now, much like the Perl module WWW::Babelfish does. Unfortunately, the WScript isn't generating the translations (requesting the page, I suppose) correctly. Peeking in on the POST values via my proxy server seems to indicate that everything is posted correctly, but for some reason, I'm not getting the correct pages back. I'd really prefer to use WScript for this, since WWW::Babelfish would require a complete Perl install on all of my machines, whereas everything I need for the VBScript/WScript stuff is already installed. Any help would be most appreciated. Thank you
This is what my VBScript code looks like (getit.vbs):
Code:
dim xml
set xml = CreateObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP")
xml.Open "POST", "http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr", FALSE
xml.setrequestheader "Referer", "http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr"
xml.Send "doit=done&tt=urltext&intl=1&urltext=What+time+do+you+want+to+meet%3F&lp=en_es"
wscript.echo xml.ResponseText
This is what my proxy logs:
Code:
POST /babelfish/tr HTTP/1.0
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en-us
Referer: URL
Pragma: no-cache
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Host: babelfish.altavista.com
Content-Length: 77
Cookie: AV_USERKEY=AVS03b89159d1def80a1c215f0000033; AV_AB=AB11=N&AB12=N&AB13=N&AB49=N&AB46=N&AB47=N&AB48=N; QHist=ModemStatus+00000030,12179|; AV_CLE=v0&1&US:.:.:.:en:.:.:.:.:
Connection: keep-alive
Accept-encoding: gzip, deflate
Browser reload detected...
Posting 77 bytes...
doit=done
tt=urltext
intl=1
urltext=What+time+do+you+want+to+meet%3F
lp=en_es
For comparison, this is what my proxy logs for a normal IE fetch:
Code:
POST /babelfish/tr HTTP/1.0
Accept: */*
Referer: URL
Accept-Language: en-us
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Host: babelfish.altavista.com
Content-Length: 77
Pragma: no-cache
Cookie: AV_USERKEY=AVS03b89159d1def80a1c215f0000033; AV_AB=AB11=N&AB12=N&AB13=N&AB49=N&AB46=N&AB47=N&AB48=N; QHist=ModemStatus+00000030,12179|; AV_CLE=v0&1&US:.:.:.:en:.:.:.:.:
Connection: keep-alive
Accept-encoding: gzip, deflate
Browser reload detected...
Posting 77 bytes...
doit=done
tt=urltext
intl=1
urltext=What+time+do+you+want+to+meet%3F
lp=en_es
And, finally, what I see when I use WWW::Babelfish:
Code:
POST /babelfish/tr?il=en HTTP/1.0
Host: babelfish.altavista.com
User-Agent: libwww-perl/5.51
Content-Length: 85
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Connection: keep-alive
Accept-encoding: gzip, deflate
Posting 85 bytes...
doit=done
urltext=What+time+do+you+want+to+meet%3F
lp=en_es
Submit=Translate
enc=utf8
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October 31st, 2003, 05:21 AM
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