MSXML 6 with Google Translate
Hi everyone!
I trying to write a app to do some chinese->english translation using google. I have all the code down to generate the right URL, i.e.
http://translate.google.com/translate_t?text=%E4%BD%A0%E5%A5%BD&hl=en&langpair=zh-CN|en&tbb=1&ie=utf-8
I can paste that into a browser and it works, but when I try to request the page using msxml 6.0 I get a 403 error (forbidden). I tried requesting "www.google.com" first, thinking maybe I need a cookie, and google.com returns fine, but still when I go on to the translate url I get the 403. Is there anyway around this, maybe changing my request header?
Thanks
-Josh K
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JoshK] at [2007-11-11 9:52:06]
# 1 Re: MSXML 6 with Google Translate
You might try using a tool like Fiddler or ieHTTPHeaders to see exactly what gets sent to Google when you request the translation page in the browser.
# 2 Re: MSXML 6 with Google Translate
Thanks for the suggestion. I tried fiddler, but I didn't really understand what I was seeing or how to change the request header in msxml, so I just ditched msxml all together and tried using the vb.net WebBrowser control.
I had a little more success using it; the page gets returned with no 403, but, well hard to explain unless you look at this page:
http://translate.google.com/translate_t?text=%E4%BD%A0%E5%A5%BD&hl=en&langpair=zh-CN%7Cen&tbb=1&ie=utf-8
so if you put that in your browser, you see ?? (or chinese characters if you have the language pack installed) in the 'Original Text:' box, and "Hello" as the translation. However, when I use this same URL in the webbrowser control of vb.net the returned page has ?? as the 'Original Text:' and "-" as the translated text.
Now this is really making me go bonkers. Anyone tell me what the **** is going on? I will bow down if you help me through this
JoshK at 2007-11-11 21:46:17 >
