How do I get data from a web form?

Question

As a pet project I want to build a program that translate from English to Hebrew. The way I want to make the translation itself is using a web site called morfix. In this site can enter an English word and after pressing the "תרגום" (translate) button the translation is brought.

My first choice is to write this program in Java, and I tried using htmlunit, but it does not work beacuse i guess the site uses AJAX to bring the results.

In what languge can I implement the part that submit the web form? How can I integrate Java with that other language?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You need a http analyzer to check what's going on when that button is pressed (Try Live HTTp headers for firefox). Then you can use any language to make the web request.

Answer 2

You can also send your request without form submit: http://milon.morfix.co.il/?q=try