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, but [...]

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 [...]