diff -dPNur libtranslate-0.99/src/modules/translate-generic-service.c libtranslate-0.99-new/src/modules/translate-generic-service.c

--- libtranslate-0.99/src/modules/translate-generic-service.c	2007-06-27 17:26:10.000000000 +0200

+++ libtranslate-0.99-new/src/modules/translate-generic-service.c	2007-06-27 17:23:55.000000000 +0200

@@ -1042,6 +1042,13 @@

       g_free(response);

     }

+    

+    if ((!answer)&&(!*err)) {

+	    g_set_error(err,

+			TRANSLATE_GENERIC_SERVICE_ERROR,

+			TRANSLATE_GENERIC_SERVICE_ERROR_PARSE,

+			_("empty server response"));

+    }

   return answer ? g_string_free(answer, FALSE) : NULL;

 }