An ooRexx equivalent using CURL can be found here: 
http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Web_scraping#ooRexx

And you need Mark Hesslings RexxCurl package from here: 
http://rexxcurl.sourceforge.net/


On 21-5-2013 4:43, Paul Higgins wrote:
> Is it possible to do the same as the VB code snippet below, ie; Send a 
> request to a website and retrieve the response (Get Response).
>
> ---
> Dim uri As String = 
> "http://api.microsofttranslator.com/v2/Http.svc/Translate?appId="; & _
>                              appID & "&text=" & textToTranslate & "&from=" & 
> fromLang & "&to=" & toLang
>
>              Dim request As HttpWebRequest = CType(WebRequest.Create(uri), 
> HttpWebRequest)
>
>              Try
>                  Using response As WebResponse = request.GetResponse
>                      Dim strm As Stream = response.GetResponseStream
>                      Using sr As New StreamReader(strm)
>                          translation = sr.ReadToEnd
>                      End Using
>                  End Using
>              Catch ex As WebException
>                  MessageBox.Show("Ensure that you are connected to the 
> internet.", _
>                                  "Translator", MessageBoxButton.OK, 
> MessageBoxImage.Stop)
>                  Exit Function
>              End Try
>
> ----
> Thanks,
>
> Paul;
>
>
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