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Hi all,

this is only loosely programming related. I wrote myself a shellscript, that extracts all acronyms from a text and writes them to a file. Now I would like to process that file to add the definitions.

My first google hit suggested using curl and the dict:// url scheme. However I am behind a proxy, which does not seem to allow that.

Does any of you know a service that is similar to the dict:// but is provided via HTTP? Ideally it would be restful since messing around with SOAP seems somewhat bloated for this task.

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There are plenty of Dictionary API services listed on http://www.programmableweb.com

Darrel Miller
Thanks :-) Very valuable source.
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