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