Hi,
I should have thought to say: this is not an auction or such, it is a website that I perform translation on, and basically, translations are handed out on a "first come first served" basis. There is no mention of automation in the ToS (which is public, located at legal/translator-agreement on their website : gengo.com if you care to verify).
Now, I understand if you consider it foul play to automate the accepting of translations, but the way I see it, is that I am located in Europe, and the servers seem to be in the US (according to geomaplookup.net) which I would expect gives people there a technological edge (to transfer the page it takes my browser 4.4 seconds) not very different from the one scripting the response would give.
The reason I took to writing this in perl is because there are other conditions to verify (several translations might appear and I want to chose the "best" one in that case, I am using HTML::Treebuilder to work through the html), and having tried in javascript I found it was too far out of the little I know about the language. I feel more comfortable in perl although I am by no means experienced with it.
As I said, I understand if people are not happy helping with this. It is not a very big deal for me, I am just using this as a "project" to practice my programming, as much as anything else. Although I do believe this is perfectly legal and fair.
Thank you for your input.

In reply to Re^2: Fast efficient webpage section monitoring by Marcool
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