use strict;
my $no_babelfish;
+my $url = 'http://babelfish.av.com/tr';
BEGIN {
eval "use URI::Escape"; # utility functions for encoding the
sub babelfishParam {
return '' if $no_babelfish;
my ($from, $to, $phrase) = @_;
- &main::DEBUG("babelfish($from, $to, $phrase)");
+ &::DEBUG("babelfish($from, $to, $phrase)");
$from = $lang_code{$from};
$to = $lang_code{$to};
my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
- $ua->proxy('http', $::param{'httpProxy'}) if (&::IsParam("httpProxy"));
+ $ua->proxy('http', $::param{'httpProxy'}) if (&::IsParam('httpProxy'));
# Let's pretend
$ua->agent("Mozilla/5.0 " . $ua->agent);
$ua->timeout(5);
- my $req =
- #HTTP::Request->new('POST', 'http://babelfish.altavista.com/raging/translate.dyn');
- HTTP::Request->new('POST', 'http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr');
+ my $req = HTTP::Request->new('POST', $url);
# babelfish ignored this, but it SHOULD work
# Accept-Charset: iso-8859-1
sub translate {
return '' if $no_babelfish;
my ($phrase, $languagepair, $req, $ua) = @_;
- &main::DEBUG("translate($phrase, $languagepair, $req, $ua)");
+ &::DEBUG("translate($phrase, $languagepair, $req, $ua)");
- my $urltext = uri_escape($phrase);
- $req->content("urltext=$urltext&lp=$languagepair");
- &main::DEBUG("http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr??urltext=$urltext&lp=$languagepair");
+ my $trtext = uri_escape($phrase);
+ $req->content("trtext=$trtext&lp=$languagepair");
+ &::DEBUG("$url??trtext=$trtext&lp=$languagepair");
my $res = $ua->request($req);
my $translated;
$translated =~ s/<[^>]*>//sg;
$translated =~ s/ / /sg;
$translated =~ s/\s+/ /sg;
- #&main::DEBUG("$translated\n===remove <attributes>\n");
+ #&::DEBUG("$translated\n===remove <attributes>\n");
$translated =~ s/\s*Translate again.*//i;
- &main::DEBUG("$translated\n===remove after 'Translate again'\n");
+ &::DEBUG("$translated\n===remove after 'Translate again'\n");
$translated =~ s/[^:]*?:\s*(Help\s*)?//s;
- &main::DEBUG("len=" . length($translated) . " $translated\n===remove to first ':', optional Help\n");
+ &::DEBUG("len=" . length($translated) . " $translated\n===remove to first ':', optional Help\n");
$translated =~ s/\n/ /g;
# FIXME: should we do unicode->iso (no. use utf8!)