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Rehna
Rehna

Reputation: 95

Lingua::Translate perl module raise an error while execute

We've installed Lingua::Translate and used it as follows

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Lingua::Translate;
my $trans = Lingua::Translate->new
                 (back_end => 'Babelfish',
                   src => "en",
                  dest => "it",);
print $trans->translate("Hello world");

Excuting this results in the following error:

Translation back-end failed; Request timed out more than 2 times (Request 1:301 Moved Permanently; Request 2:301 Moved Permanently; Request 3:301 Moved Permanently; ) at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1/Lingua/Translate/Babelfish.pm line 206.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 310

Answers (1)

Barton Chittenden
Barton Chittenden

Reputation: 4416

I suspect that this has to do with the fact that http://babelfish.yahoo.com/ now redirects to http://www.microsofttranslator.com/. I have no idea whether the underlying engine has changed. I would check CPAN to see if there's an updated version of Lingua::Translate, or check the perldoc to see if the URL is configurable within a given back end.

This has happened before: see this bug report.

Based on that patch, it looks like you may be able to add babelfish_uri as one of the hash elements passed to Lingua::Translate->new(). This isn't in the documentation, it's just an educated guess.

Upvotes: 3

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