Entries Categorized as 'API'

Have fun with URL Encoding!

Friday
Mar 27,2009

I had some trouble while playing with the Google Language API regarding the number of characters that can be sent using a GET request: Although the specification of the HTTP protocol does not specify any maximum length, URLs over 2,000 characters will not work in the most popular web browser.
Sounds okay for me, [...]

Playing with the Google Language API

Friday
Sep 26,2008

 The Google AJAX Language API lets you translate and detect the language of blocks of text. For non-Javascript environments, it exposes also a simple RESTful interface to use in combination with JSON to decode the result. Let’s try a simple Flex example of language detection :
Demo (right click for the source code)
It’s pretty easy to achieve. Here is how to call [...]